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Japanese Morphophonemics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Japanese Morphophonemics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The first book-length treatment of Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.

Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory

This volume, first published in 2001, brings together work by scholars researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.

Prosodic Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Prosodic Studies

Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances, such as questions or statements, as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings. This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well as examples from other languages. It brings together the most recent research in the field and also charts the influence on such diverse fields as multimedia communication and SLA. Intended for a wide audience of linguists that includes neighbouring disciplines such as computational sciences, psycholinguists, and specialists in language acquisition, Prosodic Studies is also ideal for scholars and researchers working in intonation who want a complement of information on specifics.

Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 808

Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology

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.

A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory

Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 566

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-11-03
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

The core data is laid out, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our knowledge of general linguistic theory.

The Syllable in Optimality Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

The Syllable in Optimality Theory

The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics: the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse frameworks of theoretical phonology and morphology all make reference to this fundamental unit of prosodic structure. No less central to the field is Optimality Theory, an approach developed within (morpho-)phonology in the early 1990s. This 2003 book combines two themes of central importance to linguists and their mutual relevance in recent research. It provides an overview of the role of the syllable in OT and ways in which problems that relate to the analysis of syllable structure can be solved in OT. The contributions to the book not only show that the syllable sheds light on certain properties of OT itself, they also demonstrate that OT is capable of describing and adequately analyzing many issues that are problematic in other theories. The analyses are based on a wealth of languages.

Probability and Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Probability and Finance

Provides a foundation for probability based on game theory rather than measure theory. A strong philosophical approach with practical applications. Presents in-depth coverage of classical probability theory as well as new theory.

Phonological Domains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Phonological Domains

This book puts together recent theoretical developments in prosodic phonology by leading specialists and presents language particular investigations on the morphosyntax-phonology interface by expert linguists working on diverse languages such as German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish.

Metrical Stress Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Metrical Stress Theory

In this account of metrical stress theory, Bruce Hayes builds on the notion that stress constitutes linguistic rhythm—that stress patterns are rhythmically organized, and that formal structures proposed for rhythm can provide a suitable account of stress. Through an extensive typological survey of word stress rules that uncovers widespread asymmetries, he identifies a fundamental distinction between iambic and trochaic rhythm, called the "Iambic/Trochaic law," and argues that it has pervasive effects among the rules and structures responsible for stress. Hayes incorporates the iambic/trochaic opposition into a general theory of word stress assignment, intended to account for all languages ...