Download or read book Pitch accent at the Utterance level in Tokyo and Kansai Japanese written by Benjamin David Tobacman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Production and Perception of Japanese Pitch Accent written by Yukiko Sugiyama and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word prosody of Tokyo Japanese is often labeled as pitch accent, and is characterized by a steep fall in F0 from the accented mora into the following unaccented mora. The description of Japanese pitch accent in earlier research was primarily based on the observation of a small set of minimal pairs that differed only by pitch accent, and its bearing on the perception of pitch accent was not clear. This book attempts to overcome these limitations by conducting production and perception experiments using a larger set of minimal pairs. It first examines whether earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent hold generally true in Japanese by thoroughly searching minimal pairs in an electronic database. It then conducts a perception study to examine whether acoustic differences found between the minimal pairs are used by listeners in word identification. The results show that some acoustic properties related to pitch accent were not used in auditory identification, underscoring the need to look at both production and perception in studying speech. This volume also includes a short review on the literature of Japanese pitch accent. The book is ideal for those interested in the issues related to phonetics and the perception of accent and word prosody.
Download or read book Category Structure and Function of Pitch Accent in Tokyo Japanese written by Mafuyu Kitahara and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Accent of Extended Word Structures in Tokyo Standard Japanese The written by 日暮嘉子 and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Learners Awareness of Pitch Accent and Its Relationship to Their Oral Skills and Study Habits written by Yui Iimori and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitch accent, a prosodic feature of the Japanese language, can be a challenging feature for learners to acquire. Many learners who are not familiar with pitch accent frequently make pitch accent errors. This study investigates whether pitch accent awareness training can increase the awareness of beginning-level Japanese language learners and examines whether there is any relationship among awareness, oral skills, and study habits. The training involved reviews and exercises involving Japanese mora, pitch accent and intonation, focusing mainly on pitch accent. The exercises involved counting the number of mora, marking utterances with accurate accent and intonation symbols, and practicing listening and speaking utterances with accurate mora, pitch accent, and intonation. The training also involved study sessions of recording practice using an online program that allowed participants in the intervention training to listen to the audio of model speech, record their own performance, and compare the two. Both the experimental group, which received the intervention, and the control group, which did not receive the intervention, were asked to complete a survey form three times (once immediately before, once immediately after, and once a month after the intervention). The survey was conducted in hopes of investigating how the Japanese learners prepare for class, their focus and attention on pitch accent and intonation, whether they could detect their own errors, and the effect of these factors on their self-reported speaking proficiency in Japanese.
Download or read book The Pronunciation of Japanese written by Masatoshi Gensen Mori and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nature of Japanese Pitch Accent written by Yukiko Sugiyama and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis reports on the results of production and perception experiments which investigated the nature of lexical accent in Tokyo Japanese (simply Japanese hereafter). Word prosody of Japanese is often labeled as pitch accent, characterized by a steep fall in F 0 from the accented mora to the following one. Words that have accent on the final-mora (final-accented words) and words that have no accent (unaccented words) apparently have the same tone sequence, yet they differ in that a particle has a surface low tone after final-accented words while it has a high tone after unaccented words. It has been debated whether the two accent patterns are identical when they occur in isolation, and whether the tone on the following particle is the only acoustic correlate of pitch accent. In the present study, a computerized database was used to search for all bimoraic and disyllabic minimal pairs of final-accented and unaccented words in Japanese. Because word familiarity is known to influence word recognition and production, only words with a relatively high familiarity rating were used, resulting in 20 minimal pairs. Ten native Japanese speakers (five males and females) produced the 20 pairs in isolation and sentence-medially followed by a particle. The production study found that, when the two types of words were produced in isolation, they were not significantly different in either their F 0 peak in the second mora or their F 0 rise from the first to second mora. When the words were produced sentence-medially, there was a significant difference within words, both in F 0 peak and F 0 rise. There was also a greater fall in F 0 into the following particle for final-accented words. In the perception experiment, recordings from the production study were used to create three sets of stimuli: (A) final-accented and unaccented words produced in isolation, (B) final-accented and unaccented words excised from a sentence, and (C) words and the following particle excised from a sentence. The listeners (n=23) were not able to identify words under conditions (A) or (B). Thus even though the stimuli type B differed in F 0 peak and F 0 rise, these acoustic properties were not sufficient for listeners to identify the words. Furthermore, the accuracy was only about 80 percent even when there was a following particle (stimuli type C). However, a strong positive correlation was found between the accuracy and the size of F 0 fall difference between the two accent patterns in each pair, suggesting that F 0 fall played an important role in perceiving accent. Thus, while accent information was redundantly present in F 0 peak, F 0 rise, and F 0 fall of words produced in sentence context, listeners appear to use only the F0 fall into the following particle for word identification.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics written by Yoko Hasegawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly growing research area. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, explores diverse characteristics of Japanese that are particularly intriguing when compared with English and other European languages. It pays equal attention to the theoretical aspects and empirical phenomena from theory-neutral perspectives, and presents necessary theoretical terms in clear and easy language. It consists of five thematic parts including sound system and lexicon, grammatical foundation and constructions, and pragmatics/sociolinguistics topics, with chapters that survey critical discussions arising in Japanese linguistics. The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics will be welcomed by general linguists, and students and scholars working in linguistic typology, Japanese language, Japanese linguistics and Asian Studies.
Download or read book The Social Life of the Japanese Language written by Shigeko Okamoto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diaspora without Homeland written by Sonia Ryang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.
Download or read book Virtual Japanese written by 金水敏 and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 役割語の豊穣な世界を紹介した『ヴァーチャル日本語役割語の謎』(岩波書店、2003年)の英語版。待望の翻訳刊行。
Download or read book Turn taking in human communicative interaction written by Judith Holler and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600 ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking, such as its timing, are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages – with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals – do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This Research Topic contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists.
Download or read book Queer Japanese written by H. Abe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abe presents a comprehensive picture of the linguistic strategies employed by Japanese sexual minorities in various social contexts, from magazine advice columns to bars to text messaging on cell phones to private homes.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics written by Patrick Heinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.
Download or read book Tonal Change and Neutralization written by Haruo Kubozono and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and neutralization, including post-lexical neutralization which represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a whole covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia, Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Asian languages/dialects many of which are endangered now. In addition to presenting novel data and analyses about individual languages, it provides typological perspectives on tonal change and neutralization. This volume will serve as an indispensable source of data and analyses for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics, phonology, prosody, historical linguistics, language typology, endangered languages, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.
