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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.
No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization,
two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the
first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this
volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and
neutralization, including post-lexical neutralization which
represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a whole
covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia,
Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Asian languages/dialects
many of which are endangered now. In addition to presenting novel
data and analyses about individual languages, it provides
typological perspectives on tonal change and neutralization. This
volume will serve as an indispensable source of data and analyses
for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics, phonology,
prosody, historical linguistics, language typology, endangered
languages, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.
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 major
phonetic and phonological phenomena in modern Japanese by reviewing
important studies in the fields over the past century. It also
presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in
the literature. The volume consists of eighteen chapters in
addition to an introduction to the whole volume. In addition to
providing descriptive generalizations of empirical
phonetic/phonological facts, this volume also aims to give an
overview of major phonological theories including, but not
restricted to, traditional generative phonology, lexical phonology,
prosodic morphology, intonational phonology, and the more recent
Optimality Theory. It also touches on theories of speech perception
and production. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to
Japanese phonetics and phonology for all interested in linguistics
and speech sciences.
No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization,
two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the
first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this
volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and
neutralization, including post-lexical neutralization which
represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a whole
covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia,
Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Asian languages/dialects
many of which are endangered now. In addition to presenting novel
data and analyses about individual languages, it provides
typological perspectives on tonal change and neutralization. This
volume will serve as an indispensable source of data and analyses
for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics, phonology,
prosody, historical linguistics, language typology, endangered
languages, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.
This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics
and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the
world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and
Turkish. While the contrast between geminate and singleton
consonants has been widely studied, the phonetic manifestation and
phonological nature of geminate consonants, as well as their
cross-linguistic similarities and differences, are not fully
understood. The volume brings together original data and novel
analyses of geminate consonants in a variety of languages across
the world. Experts in the field present a wide range of approaches
to the study of phonological contrasts in general by introducing
various experimental and non-experimental methodologies; they also
discuss phonological contrasts in a wider context and examine the
behaviour of geminate consonants in loanword phonology and language
acquisition. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach,
drawing on experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, speech
processing, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition.
This volume brings together new work on prosody and prosodic
interfaces from international experts in the field. The book is
divided into three parts that explore topics in word prosody and
phrase prosody, lexical tone and intonation, and the syntax-prosody
interface. While many recent studies have focused on prosody and
related questions, a significant number of languages, dialects, and
varieties remain largely undocumented or understudied in this
respect. The chapters in this volume help to fill this empirical
gap, with investigations into languages such as Choguita Raramuri
(Mexico), Poko (Papua New Guinea), Rere (Sudan), and Uspanteko
(Guatemala), alongside more widely studied languages such as
Japanese and Serbian. The authors also address a range of important
questions pertaining to, for example, the interactions between
lexical and postlexical tones and the relationship between prosodic
and syntactic structure. The volume as a whole sheds light on how
prosody is structured in language and how it functions in human
communication.
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