| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 應用日語研究所 === 100 === ABSTRACT
Because of technological changes our world is becoming more and more interconnected and loan words are being introduced into the Japanese language at a startling rate. Upon investigation into the daily usage of the Japanese language, the number of loanwords introduced into Japanese is astounding. Learners of Japanese as a second language must learn to properly pronounce those words of foreign origin used in everyday life. Even for students from kanji areas, learning the proper writing of loan words is a major challenge.
In this thesis, I examined the reports of Japanese learners in Taiwan from the Language Acquisition Research Project (LARP) at Soochow University. In order to understand how pronunciation affects orthography, I identified and analyzed the errors common to native Chinese speakers in Taiwan. I also investigated how the native language influenced and caused errors in the Japanese writing of speakers of Chinese, a syllabic language, learning Japanese, a moraic language by means of a longitudinal study probing the evolution of errors by examining the reports of beginning, intermediate, and advanced level students. The results of my study of the LARP indicated that errors involving long vowels and geminate consonants were most prevalent. The results as to the order of the most frequent errors by token are as follows: long vowels (217/316)>geminate consonants(87/316)＞syllabic nasals(12/316). The error results by frequency are as follows: geminate consonants (19.3%, 87/449)＞: long vowels (9.6%, 217/2243)＞syllabic nasals (1.4%, 12/861).
The results of the longitudinal study showed that the number of errors decreased during the process from the beginning level to the advanced level. A significant finding was that errors involving omission of the geminate consonant 「ッ」, i.e.: 「カプル」[kapɯɾɯ] (「カップル」[kappɯɾɯ]) persisted throughout the advanced level.
In closing, I would like to make recommendations as to effective phonetic instruction. In particular, it is my hope that the findings from this research will be used to design targeted instruction for Japanese language learners regarding the transcription of long vowels and geminate consonants in katakana and lead to improved perception of mora length.
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