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Topic: Japanese phonology

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	Japanese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese is written with a mix of Chinese characters (kanji) and a modified syllabary, kana, also originally based on Chinese characters.
		Japanese is a relative of extinct languages spoken by historic cultures in what are now the Korean peninsula and Manchuria.
		Japanese is a pro-drop language, meaning that the subject or object of a sentence need not be stated if it is obvious from context.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_language (4338 words)

	Japanese phonology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese vowels are pronounced as monophthongs, unlike in English; they are similar to their Spanish counterparts.
		In Japanese, all morae are pronounced with equal length and loudness.
		Japanese is therefore said to be a mora-timed language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_phonology (2023 words)

	Japanese language - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Japanese is a relative of the Altaic language family.
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic grammatical substructure, and core Austronesian vocabulary.
		The plain form in Japanese is recognized by the shorter, so-called dictionary (jisho) form of verbs, and the da form of the copula.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /j/ja/japanese_language.html (3820 words)

	JAPANESE AND THE MOTOR THEORY OF LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Japanese is a relatively ordinary language in terms of its phonology, lexicon and syntax.
		The stark contrast between the judgment that Japanese is an inadequate language and the overwhelming importance of the language as a constituent of the Japanese psyche is obvious.
		On the motor theory, the phonology of a language is the result of selection from a limited range of possible speech-sounds, determined by preferences within a population and ultimately dependent on gene frequencies affecting (however slightly) the physiological/morphological and neural features of articulation.
	www.percepp.demon.co.uk /japanese.htm (10485 words)

	Contrastive Analysis and Tutorial Report
		English and Japanese have very different articulatory settings; therefore, it may be difficult to gain high levels of proficiency in the pronunciation of one of the languages with the previously developed articulatory setting of the other language.
		On the other hand, in Japanese pronunciation the average position of the tongue is quite far back in the mouth, with the body of the tongue shaped to the roof of the mouth, dorsum somewhat raised, and tip behind the lower front teeth.
		Japanese learners of English may need to be made aware of the fact that double consonants usually do not result in a doubling of the sound in English.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~sford/research/tutoring (4968 words)

	Phonology (from Japanese language) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Japanese phonology, two suprasegmental units—the syllable and the mora—must be recognized.
		It is primarily spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; there are also some 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad, mainly in North and South America, who have varying degrees of proficiency in Japanese.
		The Japanese spaniel is a compact, dainty-looking dog with large, dark eyes, a short muzzle, and a heavily plumed tail that curls...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-75178 (725 words)

	Katayama --- Optimality Theory and Japanese Loanword Phonology (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The main goal of this dissertation is to propose an Optimality Theoretic model of loanword phonology which is free from special assumptions on inputs; this model is based on the idea of "Richness of the Base" (Prince and Smolensky 1993).
		I claim that consonant gemination occurring in Japanese loanwords is driven by an attempt to preserve the moraicity of coda consonants.
		Loanword phonology has been a challenging topic to pursue due to our vague understanding of underlying representations of loanwords, which has often stipulated special markings on inputs to derive systematic phonological patterns.
	ling.ucsc.edu /research/SLUGPubs/abstracts/katayama.html (377 words)

	Language of Japan (overview, phonology, written Japanese, loan-words, honorific language, names)
		Japanese is the sixth most spoken language in the world, with over 99% percent of the country's population using it.
		The short vowels in the Japanese language are spoken similarly to those of the Spanish and Italian languages, whereas the long vowel sounds are usually comprised of doubling the short vowel sounds.
		As with other cultures, the Japanese have a different language on that shows honor or respect and it is called "keigo." Keigo is simply a method of speaking that shows the speaker's respect to the person he is speaking to.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/japanese_language.htm (854 words)

	Stalking the Wild Onji:
		Japanese is written with a mixture of kanji and kana, mostly hiragana.
		Japanese respondents, who are rarely fluent in English, do not recognize the term, and assume it is yet another mysterious English word.
		The Japanese pay a great deal of attention to their language: Japanese language history, grammar, and phonology are taught in public schools, and knowledge of such terminology is often required for college entrance exams.
	www.ahapoetry.com /wildonji.htm (7210 words)

	Research Paper Abstracts
		Japanese hip hop music exhibis an interesting pattern of rhyming, which is very different from that of European poetics.
		IP in Japanese is characterized by lowering of F0, creakiness, and a pause at final positions, while Utteranceis characterized by additional final lowering and, it defines a domain of declination.
		The markedness hierarchy of geminates and mimetic gemination in Japanese
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~kawahara/paper_abs.html (2132 words)

	Andrei A Avram Mimetics and Japanese Phonology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ANDREI A. Japanese mimetics are usually grouped under the generic heading of giongo.
		A rather different picture emerges when we turn to discussions of the place of mimetics within the overall phonology of Japanese, which reflect, to a fairly large extent, a certain bias.
		I do not intend to entirely refute the idea that the Japanese lexicon has indeed a stratified structure since there do exist various types of phonological characteristics and constraints that are stratum specific and hold of a particular morpheme class.
	www.opensys.ro /rjjs/nhtml/htmlz/1.html (483 words)

	Junko Ito - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Lexical and postlexical phonology in Optimality Theory: evidence from Japanese" with A. Mester.
		"Japanese Phonology," with A. Mester, in Goldsmith, J. (ed.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Blackwell, 817-838.
		"The Phonology of Voicing in Japanese, Theoretical Consequences for Morphological Accessibility," with A. Mester, Linguistic Inquiry 17.1, 49-73.
	people.ucsc.edu /~ito/pubs.html (554 words)

	Jennifer L Smith \| Research & publications
		My main interest is theoretical phonology and how the phonological system interacts with domains such as phonetics and language processing.
		(What is phonology?) While much of my work is comparative or typological, I am particularly interested in the phonology of Japanese and other East Asian languages.
		I am interested in positional or domain-specific effects in phonology -- cases where some markedness or faithfulness constraint seems to be satisfied only in a subset of the forms of the language.
	www.unc.edu /~jlsmith/home/pubs.html (869 words)

	Andrei A Avram Mimetics and Japanese Phonology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two other problems arise if one conceives of the Japanese lexicon as partitioned into four separate sublexicons.
		The sublexicon model also raises the issue of whether even with a partitioned lexicon there still is a unitary phonological component of the Japanese grammar (as maintained by Itô and Mester (1995: 821), but see for counteraguments Avram (1993)).
		I will not discuss here the phonetic symbolism of Japanese mimetics (for a good synthetic coverage see Shibatani 1990: 155-157; for excellent and much more detailed analyses see Makino and Tsutsui 1986: 50-55 and Hamano 1994).
	www.opensys.ro /rjjs/nhtml/avram/2.html (609 words)

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		C1 voiceless or sonorant; C2 voiceless English Japanese kit kittu Steriade, from Kawahara 2003 pick pikku Steriade, from Kawahara 2003 cup kappu Lovins 82 hat hatto Lovins 82 puck pakku Lovins 82 French Japanese nappe nappu ‘table cloth’ Shinohara 19 patte patto ‘paw’ Shinohara 19 lac lakku ‘lake’ Shinohara 19 b.
		Voicing is not contrastive for geminates in Japanese.
		A singleton voiced stop keeps the voicing from the source language and fits the structure of Japanese both in terms of contrast (T vs. D) and in terms of morpheme shape (TVDV, DVDV).
	web.gc.cuny.edu /dept/lingu/events/phonology_symposium/Ster_Rice_handout.doc (656 words)

	Japanese Morphophonemics - The MIT Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The sound pattern of Japanese, with its characteristic pitch accent system and rich segmental alternations, has played an important role in modern phonology, from structuralist phonemics to current constraint-based theories.
		In Japanese Morphophonemics Junko Ito and Armin Mester provide the first book-length treatment of central issues in Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.
		Using the phonology of compounds as an analytical thread, Ito and Mester revisit central aspects of the sound pattern of Japanese and submit them to the rigor of OT.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item?ttype=2&tid=9991 (368 words)

	(EARLY) OLD JAPANESE PHONOLOGY
		The pronunciation of Early Old Japanese (EOJ), the language of the Nara period and slightly earlier, was very simple.
		The 'prenasalised' sounds b, d, g, z were similar to Modern Japanese, but had a sort of nasal effect at the beginning.
		Whereas later stages of Japanese had five vowels, EOJ had eight distinctions of vowels.
	www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk /eojphon.shtml (1155 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.445: Phonology, Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Visiting Assistant Professor (phonology) Dept. of Linguistics Rutgers University, New Brunswick 08903 The Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will have a one-year visiting position at the Assistant Professor level for academic year 1997-1998.
		Duties will include the teaching of 2 courses per semester, including introductory and advanced graduate phonology as well as undergraduate phonology.
		Japanese Visiting Assistant Professor Position Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is seeking a visiting assistant professor to teach Japanese courses for the 1997-1998 academic year.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/8/8-445.html (256 words)

	Issues in Japanese phonology and morphology
		Issues in Japanese phonology and morphology is a collection of articles edited by Jeroen van de Weijer (ULCL-HIL/Leiden University) and Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education, in Sendai, Japan).
		Yuko Yoshida and Hideki Zamma: The phonology and morphology of phrasal accent in the Kyoto dialect
		Tetsuo Nishihara, Jeroen van de Weijer and Kensuke Nanjo: Headedness in morphology: Tendencies in the truncation of loanword compounds in Japanese
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /ulcl/faculty/vdweijer/issues (308 words)

	Stalking the Wild Onji
		Counting in Japanese, and Some Differences Between English and Japanese "Syllables"
		Currently, mora(e) are undergoing intensive linguistic studies, which show connections between spoken and written Japanese that reveal underlying relationships not altogether unlike English prosody.
		Mora-- A linguistic term used to identify the sense of "phonic (hyouon) time-units" or "time-lengths" in Japanese speech.
	www.iyume.com /research/onji/onji1.html (7140 words)

	Japanese Language
		During the years I've studied Japanese, I've compiled numerous lists about segments of the language.
		It's an index to all the Japanese words and phrases discussed in the Mizutanis' Nihongo Notes series and a few other useful books.
		It seems like every Japanese dictionary and encyclopedia has collected a different set of the Japanese "numeral classifiers." The definition is fairly broad, ranging to almost "any word which can directly follow a number." Here's a list of some 500, casting a very fine net, including measurements and currencies which should probably be regarded separately.
	www.trussel.com /f_nih.htm (864 words)

	Middle Japanese Phonology
		The system represented by the spelling of Late Old Japanese essentially continued with little significant change until modern times, and it is, therefore, not usual to transcribe Middle Japanese (MdJ) as if it were pronounced differently from Late Old Japanese.
		However, pronunciation changed significantly, and romanised works produced by Portuguese missionaries in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries show how later MdJ was pronounced.
		If you have any questions about Middle Japanese phonology, please email Dr. Nic Tranter.
	www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk /mjphon.shtml (251 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:jpn
		Bostrom, Mark W. The pitch-accent component of Japanese phonology: a description demonstrating the usefulness of phonotactically motivated rules.
		Martin, Dorothy J. A text-based study of clause chaining in Japanese.
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=jpn (210 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.94: Phonology/Flap, Japanese/English: CA Approach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Message 2: With regard to a CA approach
		I am a PhD student of the University of Durham, working on inter-cultural interaction between Japanese native speakers and English native speakers in Japanese language.
		Although I am very keen to investigate my topic using CA techniques, it seems very difficult and complicated to apply a CA approach to data in a language other than the language of analysis.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/11/11-94.html (287 words)

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