Voicing in Japanese

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.

About the author

Jeroen van de Weijer is Lecturer in linguistics at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He specialises in phonological theory, especially with regard to segmental representation and with a keen interest in laryngeal features. Kensuke Nanjo is Associate Professor of Phonetics at St. Andrew¿s University, Osaka, Japan. His interests include English and Japanese phonetics and phonology, lexicography, accents of English, and the acquisition of English by Japanese learners. Tetsuo Nishihara is Lecturer of English at the Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Japan with a particular interest in English and Japanese phonology, especially with regard to prosodic phonology and phonology-morphology interaction.

Report

"[...] the articels are well-argued and presented, and offer an interesting complexity of data and issues. [...], Voicing in Japanese constitutes an important contribution to Japanese phonology and phonetics."Eric Rosen in: Phonetician, No. 97/98, 2008, I-II

Product details

• Assisted by: Kensuk Nanjo (Editor), Kensuke Nanjo (Editor), Tetsuo Nishihara (Editor), Tetsuo Nisihara (Editor), Jeroen van de Weijer (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9783110186000
• ISBN: 978-3-11-018600-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 26 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; Studies in Generative Grammar; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Literaturwissenschaft, Phonetik, Phonologie, Japanisch, Sprachwissenschaft, Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Linguistik, Phonologie, Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke, Phonetik, Laut / Phonologie, Laut / Phonetik, Japan / Sprache, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese