Papers by Kazuhito Yamato
Tim Greer, Donna Tatsuki, & Carsten Roever (Eds.), 2013 Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i, Nati... more Tim Greer, Donna Tatsuki, & Carsten Roever (Eds.), 2013 Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i, National Foreign Language Resource Center 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 dr af t: S ep te m be r 5 , 2 01 4 3: 27 P M Yamato, Tagashira, & Isoda
本稿の目的は、近年発音の目標としても多く取り上げられるようになった「明瞭性（intelligibility）」を扱う際の留意点を、概念的観点から、方法論的観点からまとめ、提示することである。構成... more 本稿の目的は、近年発音の目標としても多く取り上げられるようになった「明瞭性（intelligibility）」を扱う際の留意点を、概念的観点から、方法論的観点からまとめ、提示することである。構成概念としての明瞭性と関連する概念である理解性の定義を、先行研究からまとめた。次に、明瞭性・理解性の評定方法について整理し、その問題点・留意点などを指摘した。最後に、明瞭性という言葉が日常語化する中で、L2 speech 研究における発音の明瞭性を検討する際には十分に注意を重ねて分析・考察を行わなければならないことを強調した。
This paper examines the recognition and realisation of illocutionary force through intonation by ... more This paper examines the recognition and realisation of illocutionary force through intonation by native speakers of English and confirms if the native speakers of English recognise and realise illocutionary force through intonation as the models from the intonation studies do. In the recognition survey, participants were asked to listen to the dialogues and to judge intentions in these dialogues. In the realisation survey, they were asked to read aloud the dialogues with the instructed intentions. The results of the recognition survey illustrated that participants recognised approximately 30 percent of the intentions through intonation and that varieties of English did not affect their judgment of intention. Illocutionary forces of ""implication, possibility"" and ""exclamation"" are recognised easier than other illocutionary force such as ""warning"". The results of the realisation survey showed that participants succeeded...
Numerous studies have strived to describe the characteristics of pragmatic ability including Japa... more Numerous studies have strived to describe the characteristics of pragmatic ability including Japanese EFL / ESL learners. Most of them were cross-sectional studies and described only temporal characteristics of learners' pragmatic competence. Since they were not dealing with learner's pragmatic development, longitudinal studies on pragmatic ability have been called for in the field of Interlanguage Pragmatics Research. However, this trend from cross-sectional to longitudinal studies seems to be a swing of the pendulum --in other words, a dichotomous view. Some researchers do cross-sectional studies and others longitudinal. They have not interrelated or complemented with each other. In this paper, we did not look at these previous studies from the dichotomous viewpoint, but attempted to connect cross-sectional studies with longitudinal studies. First, we reviewed previous cross-sectional studies for Japanese learners and considered them as a hypothetical longitudinal study. F...
CASELE Research Bulletin, 2002
CASELE Research Bulletin, 2001
Language Laboratory, 2000
Abstract of presentation for ALAA / ALS 2016 Conference joint day.
JALT Journal, 2011
Pragmatic awareness in the field of interlanguage pragmatics has been investigated using various ... more Pragmatic awareness in the field of interlanguage pragmatics has been investigated using various factors: linguistic environment, overall second language proficiency, and length of residence in the target language community. In this study, on the basis of a replication of a study on pragmatic and grammatical awareness by Bardovi-Harlig and Dörnyei (1998), learners’ motivational factors were incorporated to investigate the relationship between motivation and pragmatic awareness. Through cluster analysis, the data were analyzed from the perspective of learners’ motivational profiles in order to see how the profiles affect pragmatic awareness. The results revealed that learners’ motivational profiles influence not only their perception of error identification, but also their severity ratings of errors, suggesting that noticing and understanding of the pragmatic information (Schmidt, 1995) are important aspects in the future study of interlanguage pragmatics. 動機づけ要因から見る日本人英語学習者の語用論的意識 中...
This paper investigates the features of intonation used by Japanese English as a Foreign Language... more This paper investigates the features of intonation used by Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners (JEFLLs) in terms of their realisation of illocutionary forces. Recordings of JEFLLs reading dialogues with instructed intentions were analysed and compared with ‘standard’ models from Brazil, Coulthard and Johns (1980) and Roach (2000). The results showed that, overall, JEFLLs used a falling tone irrespective of intention. This could indicate a blanket inability to realise illocutionary force through intonation. However, some tendencies were also apparent in the data. For example, unlike the models, some JEFLLs used rising or level tone to realise the illocutionary force of ‘implication, possibility’, whereas, in line with the models, some JEFLLs used rise–fall tone to realise the illocutionary force of ‘exclamation’. Evidence also showed that the group of high-proficiency subjects used a wider variety of tones than the low group. These results suggest that teaching and learni...
The present study investigated the types of errors in English spoken word recognition by replicat... more The present study investigated the types of errors in English spoken word recognition by replicating an experiment reported by Field (2004), in which the top-down and bottom-up processes of second/foreign language (L2) listeners were investigated. In Field’s study, 47 L2 learners listened to a series of English words and were asked to write down the final words. The contexts for the target words were manipulated in a way designed to induce top-down listening, using a contextual word or words (e.g., wet, cloudy, dry, cold, got [hot]). The results of Field’s study showed that listeners were not affected by the top-down process, even when listening to semantically associated words. These results were dubious, however, because some limitations of the study may have affected the results. The present study therefore examined the effect of target word frequency, familiarity, and phoneme structure on Japanese-speaking English learners’ bottom-up and top-down listening processes by replicati...
Phonological Studies: Phonological Society of Japan, 17, 59–66., 2014
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