Abstract
It has been widely acknowledged that the main reason of Chinese students having difficulties with Japanese listening is that they can not recognize phonemes or words in sentences. A Current research shows that native speakers of Tokyo Japanese use their accents efficiently to recognize or understand Japanese words. However, how Chinese students learning Japanese utilize pitch accent has not been studied or discussed. Therefore, in this paper, a comprehensive experiment with 8 Chinese students in Hokkaido University was carried out, As a result, there is a tendency that these learners distinct words using accent at second morae in the same probability as native speakers of Tokyo Japanese.
