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Japanese Tone Structure

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0262161095, 9780262161091
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
64 MB (67282936 bytes)
Series
Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Pages
282\302
Time added
2022-05-10 01:44:12

Description

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.

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