2019 Volume 23 Pages 6-21
We examined how the prosodic naturalness of Japanese utterances made by Chinese learners improves through the use of the visual and auditory information from OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary). The study found the following: (1) the presence of visual and auditory presentation—as opposed to the mere reading of text—led to higher evaluation scores; (2) visual and/or audiovisual presentation of the entire sentence string had greater effect; (3) audiovisual presentation was more effective for the higher level learners, and auditory presentation was more effective for the lower ones; and (4) the two kinds of information were verified to be effective regardless of the order of presentation.
