Miyakoda Haruko
a Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tsuda College , Tokyo , Japan.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2015;29(8-10):630-41. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2015.1031353.
Although awareness of the underlying phonological structure of a language is said to be a prerequisite in learning to read, there is still much debate as to which phonological units are the best predictors. The syllable plays an important role in accounting for various phonological phenomena observed cross-linguistically, and studies have shown its importance in promoting reading abilities. However, in the case of Tokyo Japanese, the role of the syllable is inconspicuous compared to the mora unit. This is due to the fact that in practice, the syllable often overlaps with the mora, exceptions arising from the syllables that contain the so-called 'special moras', i.e. the heavy syllables containing two moras. Traditionally, the main focus of attention in Japanese had been laid on different behaviours observed between the plain 'normal' moras and the 'special' moraic phonemes. However, in recent years, studies conducted have been focused on the different phonological patterning observed within the moraic phonemes themselves. In order to better understand the characteristics of these moraic phonemes, we report on our findings based on reversal tasks administered to elementary school students. The result of the experiment suggests that the degree of independency of these moraic phonemes in terms of phonological make-up seems to have an effect on the error patterns observed.
虽然对一种语言潜在语音结构的认知被认为是学习阅读的一个先决条件，但关于哪些语音单位是最佳预测指标仍存在诸多争议。音节在解释跨语言观察到的各种语音现象方面起着重要作用，并且研究表明其在促进阅读能力方面的重要性。然而，就东京日语而言，与音拍单位相比，音节的作用并不明显。这是因为在实际情况中，音节常常与音拍重叠，例外情况源于包含所谓“特殊音拍”的音节，即包含两个音拍的重音节。传统上，日语的主要关注点一直放在普通“正常”音拍和“特殊”音拍音素之间观察到的不同表现上。然而，近年来，所进行的研究聚焦于音拍音素自身内部观察到的不同语音模式。为了更好地理解这些音拍音素的特征，我们报告基于对小学生进行的颠倒任务得出的研究结果。实验结果表明，这些音拍音素在语音构成方面的独立程度似乎对观察到的错误模式有影响。
