Voicing in Japanese /

Voicing in Japanese / / ed. by Tetsuo Nishihara, Jeroen van de Weijer, Kensuke Nanjo.

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This book presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis. Both voicing processes in consonants (such as Sequential Voicing, or Rendaku) and vowels (...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Fukazawa, Haruka,
Kikuchi, Hideaki,
Kitahara, Mafuyu,
Kondo, Mariko,
Kubozono, Haruo,
Maekawa, Kikuo,
Nanjo, Kensuke,
Nasukawa, Kuniya,
Nishihara, Tetsuo,
Ohno, Kazutoshi,
Rice, Keren,
Sugito, Miyoko,
Suzuki, Keiichiro,
Takayama, Tomoaki,
Tanaka, Shin-ichi,
Vance, Timothy J.,
Weijer, Jeroen,
Yamane-Tanaka, Noriko,
Zamma, Hideki,
HerausgeberIn:
Nanjo, Kensuke,
Nishihara, Tetsuo,
Weijer, Jeroen van de,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2005
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 84
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.) :; Numerous fig. and tab.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Voicing in Japanese
  • Part I – Consonant voice
  • Rendaku: Its domain and linguistic
  • conditions
  • Sequential voicing, postnasal voicing, and Lyman’s
  • Law revisited
  • Sei-daku: diachronic developments in the writing
  • system
  • The representation of laryngeal-source contrasts in
  • Japanese
  • Rendaku in inflected words
  • Ranking paradoxes in consonant voicing in
  • Japanese
  • The implicational distribution of prenasalized
  • stops in Japanese
  • The correlation between accentuation and Rendaku in
  • Japanese surnames: a morphological account
  • A survey of Rendaku in loanwords
  • Recognizing Japanese numeral-classifier
  • combinations
  • Part II – Vowel voice
  • Corpus-based analysis of vowel devoicing in
  • spontaneous Japanese: an interim report
  • Syllable structure and its acoustic effects on
  • vowels in devoicing environments
  • The effect of speech rate on devoiced accented
  • vowels in Osaka Japanese
  • Where voicing and accent meet: their function,
  • interaction, and opacity problems in phonological prominence
  • Backmatter

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