Why Your Japanese Sounds English #2: Oral Space | JVL Ep. 4

✉️ If you'd like to stay in the loop, subscribe to my mailing list: https://saeko-yamaguchi.kit.com/3ffe7... You'll be the first to know about new courses and new learning resources. (I only send emails when I have something genuinely worth sharing.) It seems that the confirmation emails for my mailing list still sometimes end up in spam. If you’ve subscribed but haven’t received a confirmation email in your inbox, please check your spam folder and click “Confirm.” 🗣️ One-on-one pronunciation coaching sessions/general Japanese lessons (waitlist) https://saekoyamaguchi.com/ 📹 Why Your Japanese Sounds English #1: Vocal Folds | JVL Ep. 3    • Why Your Japanese Sounds English #1: Vocal...   🔍 rtMRIDB (The real-time MRI articulatory movement database) https://rtmridb.ninjal.ac.jp/ ☕️ I’very much appreciate some coffee😆 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pitchacc... 👦 Illustrations from: いらすとや https://www.irasutoya.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:50 What is oral space? 2:35 Japanese compactness 4:01 Seven downstream Effects of Japanese compactness 4:11 Higher tongue position 5:27 Flatter tongue shape 7:11 Different throat configuration 7:57 Softer consonants 9:34 More stable vowels 11:06 Faster transitions between vowels 11:52 More stable lip position 13:08 Hypothesis: more back pressure? 13:52 Exercise 1: Mona Lisa Plank 14:53 Exercise 2: Ni push-ups 15:37 Exercise 3: I-Vowel Freeze 16:29 Message Image/source note: The figure shown at 15:12 is reproduced from Vance (2008), Fig. 1-9. 📘 Cited resources in this video (in order of first citation) Dimon, Theodore. (2018). Anatomy of the Voice: An Illustrated Guide for Singers, Vocal Coaches, and Speech Therapists. North Atlantic Books. Vance, Timothy J. (2008). The Sounds of Japanese. Cambridge University Press. 川原繁人. (2018). ビジュアル音声学. 三省堂. Nagamine, Toshinobu. (2011). “Effects of Hyper-Pronunciation Training Method on Japanese University Students’ Pronunciation.” Asian EFL Journal, 53, 35–50. Riney, Timothy James, Naoyuki Takagi, Kaori Ota, and Yoko Uchida. (2007). “The Intermediate Degree of VOT in Japanese Initial Voiceless Stops.” Journal of Phonetics, 35, 439–443. Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C., & Marsico, E. (2011). “A Cross-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate.” Language, 87(3), 539–558. Shinozaki, J., Hiroe, N., Sato, M.-A., Nagamine, T., & Sekiyama, K. (2016). “Impact of Language on Functional Connectivity for Audiovisual Speech Integration.” Scientific Reports, 6, 31388. 🎥 YouTube videos “How to Pronounce Japanese Ra Ri Ru” — UBC cNunciate!    • How to Pronounce Japanese Ra Ri Ru   “TLEF2014 - Intro to Phonetics 1: How to Interpret Ultrasound Images and Movies” — UBC cNunciate!    • TLEF2014 - Intro to Phonetics 1: How to in...   “What does SOVT do? An overview in 3 minutes from SOVT expert Oren Boder” — Vocal Process    • What does SOVT do? An overview in 3 minute...   「rtMRI調音運動データベースの特徴とその活用法（前川喜久雄・浅井拓也・竹本浩典）／第4回音声生成に関する計測技術に関するハンズオンセミナー」— 国立国語研究所 (NINJAL)    • rtMRI調音運動データベースの特徴とその活用法（前川喜久雄・浅井拓也・竹本浩典）／...   「舌が声を邪魔する！声楽家の大敵は舌！日本語がオペラに向かない理由！！本場のプロが伝授」— 車田和久-歌の翼に    • 舌が声を邪魔する！声楽家の大敵は舌！日本語がオペラに向かない理由！！本場のプロが伝授   🎧 Other resources 高山ゆかり「『話し方』のハナシ」 — Podcast (Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/show/1gaqpkN... 高山ゆかり「13. 滑舌を良くするには、口を大きく開け…な～い！」 — Website https://hanashi.koelab.net/013-2/ Shinozaki et al. (2016) — Scientific Reports (Nature Website) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3...