Miyakoda Haruko
Department of English, Tsuda College , Tokyo , Japan.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2014 Apr;28(4):257-68. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2013.829870. Epub 2013 Oct 4.
There is general agreement in the literature that the ability to recognize that words are made up of "smaller phonological units" within the phonological hierarchy is a prerequisite for reading, however, there is still much debate as to which specific units are important. Many studies dealing with Japanese phonological development have been conducted, but most deal mainly with the mora unit, and few actually focus on other prosodic levels. In this paper, we will focus on the prosodic development of Japanese, with particular attention to the relationship of the different prosodic levels, namely, that of the foot, syllable and mora. The result of the reversal tasks seems to imply that the relationship between the foot and syllable units plays a role in the phonological processing of Japanese, implying the importance of focusing on phonological units other than the mora in order to correctly assess a child's phonological processing ability.
文献中普遍认为，在语音层次结构中识别单词是由“更小的语音单位”组成的能力是阅读的先决条件，然而，关于哪些特定单位很重要仍存在很多争议。已经进行了许多关于日语语音发展的研究，但大多数主要涉及音节单位，很少有实际关注其他韵律层次的。在本文中，我们将专注于日语的韵律发展，特别关注不同韵律层次之间的关系，即音步、音节和音节单位之间的关系。反转任务的结果似乎表明，音步和音节单位之间的关系在日语的语音处理中起作用，这意味着为了正确评估儿童的语音处理能力，关注音节以外的语音单位很重要。
