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Voicing in Japanese

By Jeroen van de Weijer , Kensuke Nanjo , Tetsuo Nishihara

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2005
ISBN
9783110186000, 3110186004
ISSN
0167-4331
LCC
PL541 .V65 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4017226 bytes)
Series
Studies in Generative Grammar 84
Pages
324\324
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50
Языки и языкознание;Японский язык

Description

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.

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