Dr Chiharu Tsurutani
BA, MA, PhD
Lecturer
Contact details for Dr Chiharu Tsurutani
Research expertise
- Second Language Phonetics and Phonology
- Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics
Current teaching areas
- Japanese linguistics
- Japanese language
- Second language acquisition
Publications
Books
- 2008 (In press) "Pronunciation and Rhythm of Japanese as a second language" Keisuisha, Japan
Journal articles
- 2008 (In press) "A Computer Program for Pronunciation Training and Assessment in Japanese Language Classrooms ��� Experimental use of ���Pronunciation check��� Japanese Studies
- 2007 "Early acquisition of palato-alveolar consonants in Japanese-Phoneme Frequescies in child-directed speech" Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan Vol.11 No. 1 April pp 102-110
- 2007 "Acquisition of geminate consonants by English speaking learners of Japanese" The Review of Asian and Pacific Studies No. 32 pp 1-17
- 2006 ���Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners��� (with A/Prof. Yamauchi, and A/Prof. Minematsu) the International Congress of Spoken Language Processing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh pp 841-844
- 2006 ���Difficulty of Japanese pronunciation for second language learners��� Phonetic Society of Japan, 20th annual conference, Juntendo University , Tokyo pp51-56
- 2004 "Acquisition of Yo-on (Japanese contracted sounds) in L1 and L2 phonology in Japanese Second Language Acquisition", Journal of Second Language, Vol.3, May 2004 pp. 27-48
- 2003 "Speech rate and perception of geminate consonants and long vowels - The study of English learners of Japanese", Journal of Japanese Language Teaching pp.51-64
- 2002 "Acquisition of Yo-on in L1 phonology" at the 8th conference on Laboratory Phonology at Yale University, USA, June 2002
- 2000 "Perception of mora timing by English learners of Japanese" in Conference Proceeding of the 8th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology pp. 62-67
- 1998 "Optimality theory and Linier modeling of Japanese word blends" In SIGPHON'98 The computation of phonological constraints: Proceedings of the COLING-ACL workshop, August1998
- 1996 "Prosodic template in word blending: A comparison between native Japanese and English learners of Japanese" in Conference Proceedings of Speech Science and Technology pp.515-520
- 1996 '"A study of the correlation between durational mistakes and pitch pattern in English speakers' production of Japanese" in Conference Proceeding of the 4th International symposium on Language and Linguistics Vol 4,pp. 1478 - 1498
- 1992 "Experimental use of a VTR to stimulate conversational Performance in Japanese Language Classes." (Production of a video as a class activity) in Conference Proceeding Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association pp.272-278.