Aural Recognition of English Inflectional Words of Japanese Listeners

Key Points

• The study aims to explore how low-intermediate Japanese listeners recognize inflectional words in English, focusing on contextual influences.
• Conducted an experiment with Japanese listeners to assess their aural recognition capabilities.
• Tested the influence of semantic and syntactic constraints on word recognition.
• Analyzed participants' attention to word stems versus suffixes.
• Participants predominantly focused on semantic constraints rather than syntactic ones.
• Recognition improved significantly when context provided hints about the meaning.
• The hypothesis about attention focus was confirmed through the experiment.