Prominence in a Pitch Language
The Production and Perception of Japanese
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2023
142 pages
978-1-9787-9840-3 (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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 b/w illustrations; 22 tables;
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-9840-3 (9781978798403)
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Shinobu Mizuguchi | Koichi Tateishi
Prominence in a Pitch Language
The Production and Perception of Japanese
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06/2023
Lexington Books
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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?
