Download or read book Loanwords and the Phonological Structure of Japanese written by Julie Beth Lovins and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Loanword Phonology written by 六川雅彦 and published by ひつじ書房. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optimality Theory and Japanese Loanword Phonology written by Motoko Katayama and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Loanword Phonology in Optimality Theory written by Masahiko Mutsukawa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation written by Katrin Dohlus and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Humboldt--Univ., 2008).

Download or read book Loan Phonology written by Andrea Calabrese and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena."

Download or read book Adaptation And Transmission In Japanese Loanword Phonology written by Clifford James Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on two issues in loanword phonology: first, how are loanwords represented in the lexicons of L1 speakers; and second, how do loanword adaptation patterns become established in a speech community over time. In examining these questions, I propose a theoretical framework for loanword borrowing in which the nativization of loanwords can take place during either of two processes: the initial adaptation of a new loanword by a borrower, or the transmission of loanwords from speaker to speaker within a social network. Using data from Arakawa's (1977) dictionary of English loanwords in Japanese, I show that historical adaptation patterns are affected not only by native phonological constraints, but also by type frequency and phonological similarity to other loanwords. Non-native phonotactic sequences are more likely to be preserved in more common phonological environments than in less common environments. I present an OT analysis of the historical variation in adaptation conventions, showing that the set of possible adaptations for a loanword can be obtained by reranking loanword-specific faithfulness constraints against a fixed ranking of native markedness constraints. However, this analysis cannot explain the origin of frequency and phonological neighborhood effects on adaptations. To account for these effects, I argue for a model of the lexicon in which lexical entries are organized on the basis of phonological similarity. I then develop a connectionist model of loanword adaptation to show how native constraints interact with type frequency in the adaptation of new loanwords. As for the establishment of adaptation patterns in a speech community, I argue that the transmission of loanwords from one speaker to another plays an important role. Based on recent research on the structure of social networks, I develop an agent-based model of loanword transmission within a network of speakers, showing that in general transmission causes a nonlinear amplification of the effects of nativization at the level of the individual speaker. I apply this model to the attested rates of nativization of various non-native patterns in Japanese loanwords, showing that Japanese speakers before 1890 tended to palatalize coronal stops before /i/ in loanwords at a much greater rate than they nativized other non-native patterns. After 1890, the attested rate of coronal palatalization in new loanwords drops to roughly the same rate as other nativizations. This data suggests that before 1890, coronal palatalization was a categorical process for many Japanese speakers, whereas after 1890, perhaps because of increased Englishlanguage education at this time, /ti/ and /di/ became allowable sequences in loanwords and palatalization became a low-level gradient process occurring during loanword transmission.

Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology written by Haruo Kubozono and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. Its primary goal is to provide a comprehensive overview and descriptive generalizations of major phonetic and phonological phenomena in modern Japanese by reviewing important studies in the fields over the past century. It also presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in the literature. The volume consists of eighteen chapters in addition to an introduction to the whole volume. In addition to providing descriptive generalizations of empirical phonetic/phonological facts, this volume also aims to give an overview of major phonological theories including, but not restricted to, traditional generative phonology, lexical phonology, prosodic morphology, intonational phonology, and the more recent Optimality Theory. It also touches on theories of speech perception and production. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to Japanese phonetics and phonology for all interested in linguistics and speech sciences.

Download or read book The Phonology of Japanese written by Laurence Labrune and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment inventory, prosodic units, mora and syllable, prosody, and accent.

Download or read book Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology written by Jeroen Weijer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on segmental as well as suprasegmental issues, including voicing and tone, approaching these issues from a variety of perspectives, including Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. In the morphology chapters, attention is given to truncation patterns and the possibilities for compound formation.

Download or read book Loanwords in Japanese written by Mark Irwin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise to recent Japanese government publications seeking to outlaw foreign vocabulary or, at the very least, offer native translations. Beginning with a history of loanwords, chapters cover loanword phonology, loanword morphology, loanword orthography and official and public attitudes to Japanese loanwords. The volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of the Japanese language.

Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation written by Taro Kageyama and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

Download or read book Japanese Tone Structure written by Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japanese Tone Structure" provides a thorough, phonetically grounded description of accent and intonation in Tokyo Japanese and uses it to develop an explicit account of surface phonological representation. The unusual amount of quantitative phonetic data analyzed and its testing in a detailed model make this an important new study for theoretical phonologists, phoneticians, and specialists in Japanese.The authors' broader purpose, however, is to develop a general theory of surface representation that can capture salient facts about prosodic structure in all languages and provide a suitable input to phonetic rules. The theory integrates autosegmental principles into a metrical account of prosodic structures in an explicit formalism. The work establishes phonology and phonetics as a productive area in cognitive science.Janet B. Pierrehumbert is a member of the technical staff in the Department of Artificial Intelligence Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mary E. Beckman is an Assistant Professor in the Department. of Linguistics at Ohio State University. "Japanese Tone Structure" is a Linguistic Inquiry Monograph.

Download or read book Japanese Morphophonemics written by Junko Itō and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length treatment of Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics written by Shigeru Miyagawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to contributing directly to general theory, on top of producing extensive analyses of the language. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement that comes from answering the question, "What can Japanese say about Universal Grammar?" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our knowledge of general linguistic theory. This book will be useful to students and scholars of linguistics who are interested in the latest studies on one of the most extensively studied languages within generative grammar.

Download or read book Loanwoerds and the Phonological Structure of Japanese written by Julie Beth Lovins and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voicing in Japanese written by Jeroen van de Weijer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (such as vowel devoicing) are examined. A number of new analyses are presented, focusing on well-known data that have been controversial in phonological debate in the past, but also presenting new (or rediscovered) data, partly through the work of Japanese scholars that hitherto went mostly unnoticed, partly through new database research, and partly through phonetic experiment.