Weijer / Nanjo / Nishihara Voicing in Japanese

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019768-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 84, 322 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weijer, Jeroen van de

Nanjo, Kensuke

Nishihara, Tetsuo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Voicing in Japanese;9
4;Rendaku: Its domain and linguistic conditions;13
5;Sequential voicing, postnasal voicing, and Lyman’s Law revisited;33
6;Sei-daku: diachronic developments in the writing system;55
7;The representation of laryngeal-source contrasts in Japanese;79
8;Rendaku in inflected words;97
9;Ranking paradoxes in consonant voicing in Japanese;113
10;The implicational distribution of prenasalized stops in Japanese;131
11;The correlation between accentuation and Rendaku in Japanese surnames: a morphological account;165
12;A survey of Rendaku in loanwords;185
13;Recognizing Japanese numeral-classifier combinations;199
14;Corpus-based analysis of vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese: an interim report;213
15;Syllable structure and its acoustic effects on vowels in devoicing environments;237
16;The effect of speech rate on devoiced accented vowels in Osaka Japanese;255
17;Where voicing and accent meet: their function, interaction, and opacity problems in phonological prominence;269
18;Backmatter;287

Über Autor(innen)

Jeroen van de Weijer is Lecturer in linguistics at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He specialises in phonological theory, especially with regard to segmental representation and with a keen interest in laryngeal features. Kensuke Nanjo is Associate Professor of Phonetics at St. Andrew’s University, Osaka, Japan. His interests include English and Japanese phonetics and phonology, lexicography, accents of English, and the acquisition of English by Japanese learners. Tetsuo Nishihara is Lecturer of English at the Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Japan with a particular interest in English and Japanese phonology, especially with regard to prosodic phonology and phonology-morphology interaction.