Griffith University

B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Senior 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
• Phonetics and Phonology

Publications

Books

• 2008 Pronunciation and Rhythm of Japanese as a second language, Keisuisha, Japan

Journal articles

• 2011 Tsurutani, C. and Eisenchlas, S. 'You sound attractive! Perceptions of accented English in a multilingual environment', Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 218-238.
• 2011 Tsurutani, C. 'L2 Intonation - A study of L1 transfer in Japanese intonation by English-speaking lecturers', Second Language, 79-102.
• 2011 Tsurutani, C., Ishihara, S. and Tsukada, K. 'What Constitutes "Good Pronunciation" from L2 Japanese Learners' and Native Speakers' Perspectives? A Perception Study', Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, Vol. 8, Suppl. 1, 277-290.
• 2011 Tsurutani, C., Kato, S., Short, G., Minematsu, N. and Hirose, K., 'Comparisons of native and Non-native evaluation of the naturalness of Japanese words with prosody modified through voice morphing', Speech and Language Technology in Education, 145-148.
• 2010 Tsurutani, C. 'Foreign accent matters most when timing is wrong', INTERSPEECH 2010, Tokyo, 1854-57.
• 2010 Tsurutani, C., Tsukada, K. and Ishihara, S. 'Comparison of Native and Non-native Perception of L2 Japanese Speech Varying in Prosodic Characteristics', The proceedings of 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 122-125
• 2009 Tsurutani, C. 'Intonation of Japanese sentences by English speakers', INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, 692-695
• 2008 'A Computer Program for Pronunciation Training and Assessment in Japanese Language Classrooms - Experimental use of Pronunciation check', Journal of Japan Studies Association of Australia, 305-315
• 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, 102-110
• 2007 'Acquisition of geminate consonants by English speaking learners of Japanese', The Review of Asian and Pacific Studies, No. 32, 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, 841-844
• 2006 'Difficulty of Japanese pronunciation for second language learners', Phonetic Society of Japan, 20th Annual Conference, Juntendo University, Tokyo, 51-56
• 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, 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, 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, August 1998
• 1996 'Prosodic template in word blending: A comparison between native Japanese and English learners of Japanese', in Conference Proceedings of Speech Science and Technology, 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, 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, 272-278.