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 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 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 752 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 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 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 Prominence in a Pitch Language written by Shinobu Mizuguchi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the way in which prominence—a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues—is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.

Download or read book Japanese Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intonation and Prosodic Structure written by Caroline Féry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

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 Japanese Lexically Specified Accent written by Robert Glen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Historical Development of Japanese Pitch Accent written by Elisabeth Margarita Boer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pitch Accent of Standard Japanese written by 賴玉華 and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Handbook of Korean Linguistics written by Lucien Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Korean Linguistics presents state-of-the-art overviews of the linguistic research on the Korean language. • Structured to allow a range of theoretical perspectives in addressing linguistic phenomena • Includes chapters on Old Korean and Middle Korean, present-day language policies in North and South Korea, social aspects of Korean as a heritage language, and honorifics • Indispensable and unique resource not only for those studying Korean linguistics but cross-linguistic research in general

Download or read book Sinography The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script written by Zev Handel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sinography, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the ways in which the Chinese-character script evolved as it was adapted to write other languages of Asia, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Zhuang, Khitan, and Jurchen.