Miyakoda Haruko, Imatomi Setsuko
Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2009 Dec;23(12):940-54. doi: 10.3109/02699200903100764.
Phonological awareness has been claimed to play an important role in the development of language skills, and it is essential that the child's phonological skills be assessed accurately in order to predict and to take early measures to help those that may encounter problems. Although the mora has attracted much attention in the discussion of phonological knowledge and phonological skills of Japanese, to our knowledge there are no previous studies that have assessed disordered speech of Japanese purely from the viewpoint of prosodic levels higher than the mora. In order to fill in this gap, this paper will present data from a child with 'unintelligible speech'. The longitudinal data (4; 11 to 8;6) collected from spontaneous Japanese speech were analysed from the perspective of phonological markedness. The evidence so far indicates that even within severely distorted speech, it may be possible to tease out systematic errors that seem to suggest the existence of unmarked phonological structures such as the bimoraic foot. This finding suggests that in order to accurately assess a child's phonological ability, many different levels within the phonological hierarchy should be taken into consideration.
语音意识被认为在语言技能发展中起着重要作用，准确评估儿童的语音技能对于预测并采取早期措施帮助可能遇到问题的儿童至关重要。尽管在日语语音知识和语音技能的讨论中，拍已经引起了很多关注，但据我们所知，以前没有研究纯粹从高于拍的韵律层面评估日语的言语障碍。为了填补这一空白，本文将呈现一名“言语难以理解”儿童的数据。从语音标记性的角度分析了从自发日语语音中收集的纵向数据（4岁11个月至8岁6个月）。目前的证据表明，即使在严重扭曲的言语中，也有可能梳理出似乎表明存在诸如双拍音步等无标记语音结构的系统错误。这一发现表明，为了准确评估儿童的语音能力，应该考虑语音层次结构中的许多不同层面。
