Phonetics and Phonology of Tone and Intonation in Japanese

by William J. Poser

This book provides the only comprehensive description of tone and intonation in Standard Japanese. Treating pitch accent as sparse tone rather than as a kind of accent, it describes the way in which pitch accent is affected by the morphology. It describes the effects of phonological phrasing on pitch accent and how tonal representations are related to actual fundamental frequency contours. Particular attention is devoted to phrasal downtrends in fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575862271
• ISBN13: 9781575862279
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 160 Pages