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Word and Sentence Prosody - The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima Japanese (Hardcover)
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Word and Sentence Prosody - The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima Japanese (Hardcover)
Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]
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This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody
in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented
in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about
2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated
from mainland dialects by the sea, this dialect exhibits unique
prosodic features not shared by other Japanese dialects. It also
exhibits considerable regional variations among the ten or more
small villages that were isolated from each other until recently.
Based on the author's fieldwork, the book analyzes word accent and
intonation, the two linguistic areas in which this endangered
dialect exhibits unique features and remarkable regional variations
within itself. They include the emergence and development of a
secondary H tone, postlexical deletion of the primary H tone, and
the L boundary tone in question and vocative intonation. These
phenomena bear crucially on general issues in prosody, including
postlexical tonal neutralizations, competitions between lexical and
postlexical tones, and the number of tones that a syllable can
maximally bear. The book thus demonstrates the relevance of
studying an endangered language/dialect in general linguistic
contexts.
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