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Comparison of Spectrographic Records of Two Syllables Pronounced from Scripts in Hiragana and Romaji by Students with Different Familiarity with English

2005; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 101; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pms.101.2.669-674

1558-688X

Harumi Ototake, Jun Yamada,

Second Language Acquisition and Learning

The same syllables /mu/ and /ra/ written in Japanese hiragana and romaji given on a standard speeded naming task elicited phonetically or acoustically different responses in a syllabic hiragana condition and a romaji condition. The participants were two groups of Japanese college students (ns = 15 and 16) with different familiarity with English as a second language. The results suggested that the phonetic reality of syllables represented in these scripts can differ, depending on the interaction between the kind of script and speakers' orthographic familiarity.