| Presentation | 2006/7/8 Input for Learning Japanese : RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus(COE Workshop Session 2) Reiko MAZUKA, Yosuke IGARASHI, Ken'ya NISHIKAWA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The input for infant language learning is the speech that mothers and other adults produce around them. In order to investigate language acquisition, it is critical to understand the nature of input that infants are presented with. When speaking to infants (Infant-Directed Speech: IDS), adults modify their speech in certain ways-including prosodic, phonological and lexical level changes. Although a rich literature exists that documents various aspects of Japanese IDS properties, previous studies on phonological and prosodic aspects of Japanese IDS have been based on relatively small sample sizes. In this talk, we will introduce a new corpus of Japanese mothers' speech to infants. The RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus (R_MICC) consists of 22 mothers' conversations with their 18-24 month old children as well as with adults. The corpus consists of approximately 45 minutes of recording from each mother-infant dyad, totaling 14 hours. Using the coding criteria developed for the Corpus of Spoken Japanese (2004, National Institute for Japanese Language) each mother's speech is transcribed phonologically, and coded for further phonetic details as well as morphological and prosodic characteristics. Analysis of this corpus will allow us to capture the basic characteristics of Japanese infants' language input, such as frequency of consonants and vowels, types of syllables, word types, parts of speech, intonational characteristics etc. For purposes of illustration, we will present a comparison of speech rates between IDS and ADS.. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Spoken language corpus / Infant Directed Speech / Speech rate |
| Paper # | TL2006-16 |
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| Conference Date | 2006/7/8(1days) |
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| Registration To | Thought and Language (TL) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Input for Learning Japanese : RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus(COE Workshop Session 2) |
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| Keyword(1) | Spoken language corpus |
| Keyword(2) | Infant Directed Speech |
| Keyword(3) | Speech rate |
| 1st Author's Name | Reiko MAZUKA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute:Duke University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yosuke IGARASHI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute:The National Institute for Japanese Language:The Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 3rd Author's Name | Ken'ya NISHIKAWA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute:Keio University |
| Date | 2006/7/8 |
| Paper # | TL2006-16 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.106 |
| Number (no) | 165 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 5 |
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