
Prominence in a Pitch Language
The Production and Perception of Japanese
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. June 2023
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-1-7936-4585-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work examines the way in which prominence-a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues-is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.
Reviews / Votes
Using a variety of methods-including production and perception tests, fMRI, and Rapid Prosodic Transcription-the authors challenge some basic assumptions that have informed the study of Japanese sentence-level prominence over the past thirty years. This book is a welcome new perspective on a well-studied topic. -- Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book provides not only a comprehensible overview of the past literature on Japanese prosody, but also novel findings obtained through several methodological approaches that have not been implemented in earlier studies. Highly recommended for those who are new to the field of intonational phonology as well as for experts on Japanese prosody who are interested in fresh insights from state-of-the-art research. -- Shinichiro Ishihara, Lund UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 b/w illustrations; 22 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-4585-2 (9781793645852)
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Shinobu Mizuguchi | Koichi Tateishi
Prominence in a Pitch Language
The Production and Perception of Japanese
E-Book
07/2023
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€78.49
Available for download

Shinobu Mizuguchi | Koichi Tateishi
Prominence in a Pitch Language
The Production and Perception of Japanese
E-Book
07/2023
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€78.49
Available for download
Persons
Shinobu Mizuguchi is professor emeritus of linguistics at Kobe University.
Koichi Tateishi is professor of linguistics at Kobe College.
Koichi Tateishi is professor of linguistics at Kobe College.
Content
Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?
Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence
Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word
Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent
Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence
Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese
Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?
Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence
Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word
Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent
Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence
Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese
Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?