The Intonation of Wh- and Yes/No-Questions in Tokyo Japanese

2017 ◽  
pp. 399-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichiro Ishihara
Keyword(s):  
Tokyo Japanese

scholarly journals An explanation for phonological word-final vowel shortening: Evidence from Tokyo Japanese

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satsuki Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Short Vowel ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Phonological Word ◽  
Distributional Properties ◽  
Tokyo Japanese ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cross

AbstractThis paper offers an account for the cross-linguistic prevalence of phonological word-final vowel shortening, in the face of phonetic final lengthening, also commonly observed across languages. Two contributing factors are hypothesized: (1) an overlap in the durational distributions of short and long vowel phonemes across positions in the utterance can lead to the misidentification of phonemic vowel length and (2) the direction of bias in such misidentification is determined by the distributional properties of the short and long vowel phonemes in the region of the durational overlap. Because short vowel phonemes are typically more frequent in occurrence and less variable in duration than long vowel phonemes, long vowel phonemes are more likely to be misidentified than short vowel phonemes. Results of production and perception studies in Tokyo Japanese support these hypotheses.

Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese

2020 ◽  
pp. 002383092097184
Author(s):  
Jeremy Steffman ◽  
Hironori Katsuda
Keyword(s):  
Target Word ◽  
Speech Signal ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Vowel Duration ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Target Sound ◽  
Tokyo Japanese ◽  
Forced Choice Task ◽  
Prosodic Boundary

Recent research has proposed that listeners use prosodic information to guide their processing of phonemic contrasts. Given that prosodic organization of the speech signal systematically modulates durational patterns (e.g., accentual lengthening and phrase-final (PF) lengthening), listeners’ perception of durational contrasts has been argued to be influenced by prosodic factors. For example, given that sounds are generally lengthened preceding a prosodic boundary, listeners may adjust their perception of durational cues accordingly, effectively compensating for prosodically-driven temporal patterns. In the present study we present two experiments designed to test the importance of pitch-based cues to prosodic structure for listeners’ perception of contrastive vowel length (CVL) in Tokyo Japanese along these lines. We tested if, when a target sound is cued as being PF, listeners compensatorily adjust categorization of vowel duration, in accordance with PF lengthening. Both experiments were a two-alternative forced choice task in which listeners categorized a vowel duration continuum as a phonemically short or long vowel. We manipulated only pitch surrounding the target sound in a carrier phrase to cue it as intonational phrase final, or accentual phrase medial. In Experiment 1 we tested perception of an accented target word, and in Experiment 2 we tested perception of an unaccented target word. In both experiments, we found that contextual changes in pitch influenced listeners’ perception of CVL, in accordance with their function as signaling intonational structure. Results therefore suggest that listeners use tonal information to compute prosodic structure and bring this to bear on their perception of durational contrasts in speech.

scholarly journals Partial devoicing of voiced geminate stops in Tokyo Japanese

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qandeel Hussain ◽  
Shigeko Shinohara
Keyword(s):  
Tokyo Japanese

Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945-1952.

1994 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Grant K. Goodman ◽  
Kyoko Hirano
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Cinema ◽  
American Occupation ◽  
Tokyo Japanese

TOKYO Japanese fear over festival cyanide poisoning

The Lancet ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 352 (9125) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Watts
Keyword(s):  
Cyanide Poisoning ◽  
Tokyo Japanese

scholarly journals A Quantitative Analysis of Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Satoshi Nambu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Grammaticality Judgment ◽  
Tokyo Japanese

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Based on his grammaticality judgment test, Harada (1971) claimed that there is an ongoing change, whereby the speakers of Tokyo Japanese increasingly prefer ga to no in relevant environments. In this paper, I present a quantitative analysis using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. The goal of this study is not only to validate the findings in Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007), but also to give another perspective on the variation.

Speaker age effects on the voicing contrast of Tokyo Japanese stops

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 2413-2413
Author(s):  
Zack E. Jones ◽  
Chris S. Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Age Effects ◽  
Voicing Contrast ◽  
Tokyo Japanese
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