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L2 Japanese attrition of Korean returnee children : With a special focus on the change of the phonemic and phonetic features

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1福岡大学 言語教育研究センター

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ABSTRACT

Language attrition is defined as the opposite process of language acquisition, namely the process of decay of a language. It is observed in an individual speaker or a speech community that experienced for lack of use of a language after a certain period of language contact. Although various grammatical approaches on language attrition have been conducted so far, less phonemic and phonetic changes caused by language attrition have been found. In this paper, I will focus on the phonemic and phonetic changes by observing the use of Japanese of Korean returnee children who have stayed for a while in Japan and gone back to Korea after their stay. As a result of two-year longitudinal study after they went back to Korea, I point out some phonemic and phonetic changes which are influenced by the application of the Korean phonemics and phonetics, such as elision of /h/, insertion of /n/, and liaison. Furthermore, there are some changes which are not caused by their native language, Korean. The speakers may feel some difficulties in the Japanese pronunciations because they have less contact with Japanese after their return.

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