Prominence in a Pitch Language - The Production and Perception of Japanese

Using production, perception, and processing experiments on understudied sentence- and utterance-levels, the authors explore how Japanese prominence is marked, perceived, and processed. The authors argue that Japanese functions as a pitch language, which marks prominence compositionally by lexical F0 boost and phrasal and boundary pitch movement.

List of contents

Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?
Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence
Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word
Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent
Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence
Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese
Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?

About the author

By Shinobu Mizuguchi and Koichi Tateishi

Product details

• Authors: Shinobu Mizuguchi, Shinobu Tateishi Mizuguchi, Koichi Tateishi, Tateishi Koichi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781793645852
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-585-2
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Cognitive studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Cognitive Science, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc