This study attempts to explore phonetic characteristics of the so-called pseudo-Osaka dialect, spoken by non-native Osaka dialect speakers. This dialect often makes native speakers feel uncomfortable because it includes the word forms and pitch patterns which are not usually found in the Osaka dialect. Many native speakers seem to dislike the accent and intonation patterns used in the pseudo-Osaka dialect, which seem to convey social functions that affect human relations. Native Osaka dialect speakers feel that the pseudo-Osaka dialect semantically and phonetically deviates from the traditional Osaka dialect and that their Osaka dialect is made fun of. The informants in the current study were 10 pseudo-Osaka dialect speakers who were born and raised in eastern part of Japan. They were asked to read 19 sentences aloud in their pseudo-Osaka dialect that they think of as Osaka dialect. The acoustic-phonetic analyses of the data indicated that 1) phrase intonation of common Japanese reflects negative transfer, 2) the speeches by non-native speakers do not distinguish between the pitch patterns of high-beginning and low-beginning, and 3) they also shift their accent falling mark intentionally.

This study analyzes Japanese native speakers' ERP Evidence of Korean learners' Japanese language's phrase final intonations. We focused on four intonation types (HL, LHL, H, L) what Kim (2017) reported that four intonation types (HL, LHL, H, L) are common in Korean Learners' Japanese Language. We examined ERP evidence's differences for four intonation types and analyzed about relevance between ERP evidence and Kim (2017)'s evaluation score. The result shows in a case L is a standard about the waves appeared around 300-700msec, from the peak latency, LHL and H are recognized as unnatural types. Further, from the peak amplitude and negative area, LHL is recognized as unnatural type. The result suggests Japanese Native Speakers recognized that the most unnatural type is LHL.

This study analyzes the voice condition of elderly people in nursing homes. It was conducted using experimental phonetics methods in order to examine the characteristics of the voices of the elderly and the various changes that may be found accompanying their age.

The results of the formant frequency analysis and sound spectrogram (SPG) evaluation suggest; (1) the articulatory characteristics of elderly people, (2) the difficulty of generating some sound type voices, (3) the sound types that may be expected from the effects of training and (4) the factors that cause such results.

Within the scope of this study, a significant result was observed in the sound quality of the /i/ sound among the candidates of the study. Their /i/ sounds tend to sound closer to /e/.

Consequently I have formed the opinion that this phenomenon is one of the major voice characteristics to occur as an accompaniment to aging.

The aim of this study is to investigate the intonation perception and its strategies by Japanese learners. We conducted a perceptual experiment followed by an interview targeting Iranian learners of Japanese. The result is as follows: First, "XnoYwo" structure is a known pattern for Iranians. Therefore, it is easier to perceive compared with "XdeYwo" structure. Second, irrespective of the type of structure, the intonation pattern consisting of a combination of "unaccented word" and "accented word" is difficult to perceive. As a result of the interview, the upper-grade group mainly perceives intonation with "height" and "stress" as clues. On the other hand, it was revealed that the lower-grade group perceives intonation based on "rhythm" and "sense".

Originally it is at the beginning of the from the latter half of 18th century to 19th century, and the lied is common at the point where all use Indo-European languages for with a thing established in Germany, Italy, France, the U.K., Russia on the language side. Therefore, various problems to receive are thought about by a language side with a property different at all at least Indo-European languages and Japanese when I declare a lied in Japanese.

At first it is Japanese, and pitch and duration are particularly important whereas intensity and timbre are particularly important by the Indo-European languages when they catch an articulation from the situation of the person of utterance. Japanese is a pitch accent, but, as for this, the Indo-European languages is accepted, for example, in an accent by points that a stress accent is common. From the situation that audiance, as a viewpoint to be deep, and to be concerned with hearing information processing in the cerebrum such as so-called recognition, understanding, (1) syllable structure, (2) the kind of the syllable, (3) rhythm and the mora characteristics of words are important.

(1) As for the Japanese syllable structure, V generally becomes the nucleus and is /CV/ structure putting C one in front of V.However, the syllable structure of Indo-European languages is different in the point where we can employ plural consonants in front and behind V which is a nucleus.

(2) Japanese is a language of open syllable, where an ends in by a vowel sound of the word in many cases. In contrast, Indo-European languages is a language of closed syllable where the end of the word ends in by a consonant in the case of most. (3) It is a language of mora-timed rhythm, and Japanese has mora as the rhythm unit of distance. However, mora in a Japanese meaning does not exist because Indo-European languages is a language of syllable-timed rhythm. On the other hand, there is variety of the strength and weakness rhythm in the poem method conveyed for a language of Indo-European languages for a long time, and spondee, iamb, trochee, pyrrhic, anapæst, dactyl, double pyrrhic, tribrach,pæon is distinguished.

It was different from Japanese in various points by the Indo-European languages and would speak that there was the big ditch which was not easily exceeded among both in an accent called prosody, syllable structure, mora particularly as discussed in the above.