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Title Handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology / edited by Haruo Kubozono
Published Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 767 pages) : map
Series Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics ; v. 2
Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics ; v. 2.
Contents The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents / Shigeto Kawahara -- The phonology of sokuon, or geminate obstruents / Itsue Kawagoe -- The emergence of new consonant contrasts / Gábor Pintér -- Vowel devoicing / Masako Fujimoto -- Diphthongs and vowel coalescence / Haruo Kubozono -- The phonological lexicon and mimetic phonology / Akio Nasu -- Sino-Japanese phonology / Junko Ito and Armin Mester -- Loanword phonology / Haruo Kubozono -- Word formation and phonological processes / Junko Ito and Armin Mester -- Rendaku / Timothy J. Vance -- The phonology of Japanese accent / Shigeto Kawahara -- Mora and mora-timing / Takashi Otake -- Intonation / Yosuke Igarashi -- Syntax-phonology interface / Shinichiro Ishihara -- Historical phonology / Tomoaki Takayama -- Corpus-based phonetics / Kikuo Maekawa -- L1 Phonology: phonological development / Mitsuhiko Ota -- L2 phonetics and phonology / Yukari Hirata
Summary This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing all the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. While reviewing important studies in the fields over the past century, it also presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in the literature. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to Japanese phonetics and phonology for all interested in linguistics and speech sciences including phonetic processing, speech perception and speech production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Japanese language -- Phonology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Japanese language -- Phonetics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Japanese language -- Phonetics
Japanese language -- Phonology
Japanska språket.
Fonetik.
Fonologi.
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Kubozono, Haruo, author.
ISBN 9781614511984
1614511985
9781614512004
1614512000