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Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies

This paper investigates the English language spoken by four educated Japanese speakers from an acoustic phonetic perspective. We look closely at how they pronounce and connect segments in reading a short text. Because English has the status of an international language, it is actively used for vario...

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Main Authors: Yamaguchi, Toshiko, Pétursson, Magnús
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
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PE English
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/20325/
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078417000359
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spelling my.um.eprints.203252019-02-15T07:25:54Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/20325/ Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies Yamaguchi, Toshiko Pétursson, Magnús PE English This paper investigates the English language spoken by four educated Japanese speakers from an acoustic phonetic perspective. We look closely at how they pronounce and connect segments in reading a short text. Because English has the status of an international language, it is actively used for various purposes within and across countries. English speakers are therefore not necessarily native speakers but have a different first language (L1); English is a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) for them. There are increasing numbers of studies on Japanese English (JE), particularly from attitudinal and perceptual angles (e.g. Tokumoto & Shibata, 2011; Matsuura et al., 2014), but, as McKenzie (2013: 228) notes, there is a dearth of research that documents, or systematically characterizes, the English produced by Japanese speakers. Cambridge University Press 2018 Article PeerReviewed Yamaguchi, Toshiko and Pétursson, Magnús (2018) Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies. English Today, 34 (02). pp. 17-24. ISSN 0266-0784 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078417000359 doi:10.1017/S0266078417000359
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topic PE English
spellingShingle PE English
Yamaguchi, Toshiko
Pétursson, Magnús
Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
description This paper investigates the English language spoken by four educated Japanese speakers from an acoustic phonetic perspective. We look closely at how they pronounce and connect segments in reading a short text. Because English has the status of an international language, it is actively used for various purposes within and across countries. English speakers are therefore not necessarily native speakers but have a different first language (L1); English is a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) for them. There are increasing numbers of studies on Japanese English (JE), particularly from attitudinal and perceptual angles (e.g. Tokumoto & Shibata, 2011; Matsuura et al., 2014), but, as McKenzie (2013: 228) notes, there is a dearth of research that documents, or systematically characterizes, the English produced by Japanese speakers.
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author Yamaguchi, Toshiko
Pétursson, Magnús
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Pétursson, Magnús
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title Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
title_short Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
title_full Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
title_fullStr Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
title_full_unstemmed Japanese English: Norm-dependency and emerging strategies
title_sort japanese english: norm-dependency and emerging strategies
publisher Cambridge University Press
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/20325/
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078417000359
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