Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology
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Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology

  1. 411 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology by Jeroen Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara, Jeroen Weijer,Tetsuo Nishihara in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. I. Studies in Japanese Phonology
  3. Heaviness in Interfaces
  4. The Accent of Tsuruoka Japanese Reconsidered
  5. How should we Represent ‘g’ in toge in Japanese Underlyingly?
  6. Domain-Relative Faithfulness and the OCP: Rendaku Revisited
  7. Epenthetic Vowels and Accent in Japanese: Facts and Paradoxes
  8. Prosodic Structure and Sandhi Phenomena in the Saru Dialect of Ainu
  9. The Emergence of the ‘Unaccented’: Possible Patterns and Variations in Japanese Compound Accentuation
  10. An Element-Based Analysis of Affrication in Japanese
  11. The Accent System of the Kyoto Dialect of Japanese A Study on Phrasal Patterns and Paradigms
  12. II. Studies in Japanese Morphology
  13. Word Plus: The Intersection of Words and Phrases
  14. Further Evidence in Support of the Righthand Head Rule in Japanese
  15. Against Headedness in Compound Truncation: English Compounds in Japanese
  16. III. Studies in Contrastive Japanese-English Phonetics and Phonology
  17. Two Different Kinds of Rhythm: Japanese and English
  18. sC Clusters as Complex Segments: Evidence from the Contrastive Phonology of English and Japanese
  19. Author Index
  20. Language Index
  21. Subject Index
  22. List of Contributors