The Phonology Of Japanese Hardcover

Laurence Labrune

This book provides the fullest account of Japanese phonology ever published. At the same time it makes original contributions both to current understanding of the Japanese sound system and to contemporary phonological theory more generally. After a consideration of the history of linguistic variation in Japanese, the book focuses on modern standard Japanese and its major dialectical variations. Professor Labrune presents a critical overview of current Japanese phonology and new analyses of the central features of Japanese phonology, including segment inventory, the phonology of voicing, the nature of moraic segments, the mora, the syllable, the foot and the upper prosodic units, and accent. Drawing on her own extensive research and on published work in and outside Japan Professor Labrune presents a synthesis of work within and outside Japan. In doing so she shows the great value as well as some of the limitations of approaches derived from Japanese traditional linguistics and philology, work which has largely been ignored outside the country. Her balanced, clear presentation will appeal to phonologists and their advanced students throughout the world.

9780199545834

English

Oxford University Press

07-04-2012

312

Laurence Labrune is Assistant Professor of Phonology and Deputy Director of the ERSS at the University of Bordeaux Michel de Montaigne. She is the author of La phonologie du japonais (Peeters and le Societe de Linguistique de Paris, 2006) and, co-authored with E. Delais-Roussarie, Des sons et des sens : Donnees et modeles en phonologie et en morphologie (Hermes, 2007) and has published extensively on Japanese including articles in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, and Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan.

An informative, stimulating book worth reading. * Journal of the International Phonetic Association * The Phonology of Japanese addresses many aspects of Japanese phonology, and its coverage is rather comprehensive. ... this book will prove to be useful for a wide range of readers. * Shigeto Kawahara, Journal of Phonology *