Prominence in a Pitch Language
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Prominence in a Pitch Language

The Production and Perception of Japanese

  1. 143 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Prominence in a Pitch Language

The Production and Perception of Japanese

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Prominence in a Pitch Language by Shinobu Mizuguchi,Koichi Tateishi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Chapter 1: What Is Prominence?: How Is It Perceived?
  8. Chapter 2: Non-focal and Focal Prominence
  9. Chapter 3: Focal Prominence on Lexical Word
  10. Chapter 4: Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent
  11. Chapter 5: Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence
  12. Chapter 6: Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese
  13. Chapter 7: What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?
  14. Appendix A
  15. Appendix B
  16. Appendix C
  17. Appendix D
  18. Appendix E
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. About the Authors