Kimiko Tsukada
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kimiko Tsukada is involved.
Articles
2024 Foreign accent in L1 (first language): Case of Korean immigrants in North America Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:5, pp. 740–758 | Article
This study builds on Flege et al. (2006) and evaluated the influence of chronological age and length of residence in North America on degree of foreign accent in first language (L1) Korean by Korean adults and children in immigrant settings. The adult (A4/6) and child (C4/6) immigrants lived in… read more
2016 The perception of Mandarin lexical tones by native Japanese adult listeners with and without Mandarin learning experience Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2:2, pp. 225–252 | Article
Processing lexical tones is known to be difficult for non-native speakers from various language backgrounds. Perceptual accuracy of six Mandarin tone contrasts (T1–T2, T1–T3, T1–T4, T2–T3, T2–T4, T3–T4) of two groups of Japanese listeners (learners and non-learners) and a control group of… read more
2008 An acoustic comparison of English monophthongs and diphthongs produced by Australian and Thai speakers English World-Wide 29:2, pp. 194–211 | Article
This study investigated acoustic-phonetic characteristics of English vowels (four monophthongs /I æ ~ %/ and two diphthongs /eI o~/) spoken by native speakers of Australian English (AusE, n = 6) and Thai (T, n = 15). The Thai speakers had lived in Australia for an average of 3.2 years. While the… read more