Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology / / ed. by Haruo Kubozono.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Fujimoto, Masako,; Hirata, Yukari,; Igarashi, Yosuke,; Ishihara, Shinichiro,; Ito, Junko,; Kageyama, Taro,; Kawagoe, Itsue,; Kawahara, Shigeto,; Kubozono, Haruo,; Maekawa, Kikuo,; Mester, Armin,; Ota, Mitsuhiko,; Otake, Takashi,; Pintér, Gábor,; Shibatani, Masayoshi,; Takayama, Tomoaki,; Vance, Timothy J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kubozono, Haruo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (767 p.)

This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. Its primary goal is to provide a comprehensive overview and descriptive generalizations of majo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Table of contents
• Contributors
• I Introduction to Japanese phonetics and phonology
• II Segmental phonetics and phonology
• 1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents
• 2 The phonology of sokuon, or geminate obstruents
• 3 The emergence of new consonant contrasts
• 4 Vowel devoicing
• 5 Diphthongs and vowel coalescence
• III Morphophonology
• 6 The phonological lexicon and mimetic phonology
• 7 Sino-Japanese phonology
• 8 Loanword phonology
• 9 Word formation and phonological processes
• 10 Rendaku
• IV Prosody
• 11 The phonology of Japanese accent
• 12 Mora and mora-timing
• 13 Intonation
• 14 Syntax–phonology interface
• V Broader perspectives
• 15 Historical phonology
• 16 Corpus-based phonetics
• 17 L1 phonology: phonological development
• 18 L2 phonetics and phonology
• Subject index