Phonological and Phonetic Characteristics of Maritime English by Korean Speakers: How Japanese Listeners Perceive Their Foreign Accent

韓国人海事英語の音声的特徴について―日本人が感じる外国語訛り―

The present study investigated pronunciation elements of Korean speakers' Maritime English that are likely to hinder successful English communication between Japanese and Korean speakers working in maritime sectors. Contrastive analyses of English, Japanese, and Korean yielded descriptions of phonological/phonetic characteristics in Korean accented English and predictions of difficulties Japanese listeners may encounter. This was followed by the analysis of Maritime English data pronounced by eight students of a maritime institute in Korea and accent judgment by Japanese listeners. The Japanese listeners were predicted not to perceive accent in sound pairs such as /l/ and /r/ since the two sounds are not distinguishable in Japanese in the first place, while it was expected voiced sounds pronounced as voiceless in certain environments due to Korean phonology would be judged accented. Also, where realization of a sound deviates from the value expected by Japanese listeners, e.g., /æ/ realized as [e], /f/ realized as [p], it was expected Japanese listeners would point out foreign accent. Although the majority of the results were consistent with what had been expected, some of the results, e.g., perception of syllable-final consonants and consonant sequences, did not match the predictions made by contrastive analysis.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.9749/jin.129.45
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Phonological+and+Phonetic+Characteristics+of+Maritime+English+by+Korean+Speakers%3a+How+Japanese+Listeners+Perceive+Their+Foreign+Accent&author=Y.+UCHIDA&author=N.+TAKAGI&publication_year=2013
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• Authors:
  • UCHIDA, Yoko
  • TAKAGI, Naoyuki
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 45-49
• Serial:
  • The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation
  • Volume: 129
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Japan Institute of Navigation
  • ISSN: 0388-7405
  • EISSN: 2187-3275
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jin/-char/en

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Education and training; Foreign; Language; Maritime industry
• Identifier Terms: English language; Maritime Tests of English Language
• Uncontrolled Terms: Listening
• Geographic Terms: Japan; Korea
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Society; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01504221
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Jan 24 2014 2:29PM