Voicing in Japanese
This is a book project initiated by Jeroen van de Weijer (ULCL,
Leiden University), Kensuke Nanjo (St. Andrew's University) and
Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education, Sendai City), and aims at
presenting new and exciting data and analysis with respect to the
[voice] grammar of Japanese, as well as important background
information, with special attention for dialectal variation,
historical background and variationist factors. It will -tentatively- consist of two parts,
one focusing on voice in consonants and the other on voice in
vowels.
The book has been accepted for publication by Mouton de
Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
Part I: Consonant voice
In this part, various scholars will describe and analyse
voicing phenomena in consonants in Japanese, paying particular
attention to contemporary variation across dialects, historical
stages or sociolinguistic varieties. The phenomenon of rendaku
(Sequential voicing), for instance, has received a lot of
attention in the descriptive and
theoretical literature, but there is a wealth of data that is not
generally known.
Haruka Fukazawa
(Kyushu Institute of Technology) and Mafuyu
Kitahara (Yamaguchi University): Ranking
Paradox in Consonant Voicing in Japanese (see draft
in PDF)
Shosuke Haraguchi
(Meikai University): A Theory of Voicing (see draft
in PDF)
Haruo
Kubozono (Kobe University): Rendaku:
Its Domain and Linguistic Conditions (see draft
in PDF)
Kuniya
Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University): The
Representation of Laryngeal-Source Contrasts in Japanese
Kazutoshi Ohno
(University of Arizona): Sei-daku:
More than a Voicing Difference (see draft
in PDF)
Keren Rice
(University of Toronto): Sequential Voicing,
Postnasal Voicing, and Lyman's Law Revisited (see draft
in PDF)
Keiichiro Suzuki
(Microsoft Speech Group): Recognizing Japanese
Numeral-Classifier
Combinations (see draft in PDF)
Tomoaki
Takayama (Kanazawa University): Rendaku
in Loanwords (see draft in PDF)
Timothy J. Vance
(University of Arizona): Rendaku
in Inflected Words (see draft in PDF)
Noriko Yamane
(Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia): The Implicational Distribution of Prenasalized Stops in Japanese (see draft in PDF)
Hideki Zamma (Kobe City
University of Foreign Studies): Accentuation
and Rendaku in Proper Nouns and their Theoretical Implications (see
draft in PDF)
Part II: Vowel voice
In the second part attention is focused on vowels. Japanese is
well-known for its vowel devoicing, and the staggering variation
that this process is subject to in its various dialects. In this
part, various studies on this variation, as well as other
phenomena, including the interaction between voice and tone, will
be brought together.
Mafuyu Kitahara
(Yamaguchi University): Pitch accents in
the region without pitch information (see draft
in PDF)
Mariko
Kondo (Waseda University): Syllable
Structure and its Acoustic Effects on Vowels in Devoicing
Environments (see draft
in PDF)
Kikuo Maekawa and Hideaki
Kikuhi (National Institute for Japanese Language): Corpus-based
Analysis of Vowel Devoicing in Japanese (see draft
of paper and tables and figures, in
PDF)
Miyoko Sugito
(Institute for Speech Communication Research): Devoiced
Accented Vowels in Japanese (see draft
in PDF)
Shin-ichi Tanaka
(The University of Tokyo): Where Voicing and Accent Meet: (In-)Completeness in the
Harmonic Scale of Phonological Prominence
(relevant to vowels and
consonants) (see draft in PDF)
Natsuya Yoshida
(Hokkaido Bunkyo University): Some
Factors concerning Vowel Devoicing: Consecutive Vowel Devoicing
and Morpheme/Word Boundary (see draft
in PDF)
The Bibliography in this volume will include
the combined reference sections of all papers. A draft of the
bibliography is available in PDF on
this link: Comments and/or additions are welcome.
The volume will be complemented by an introductory article
describing the general situation of voicing in Japanese against a
theoretical background of voicing studies.
See also: Issues
in Japanese Phonology and Morphology. Mouton de Gruyter,
Berlin (2001).
Comments? Questions? Suggestions? All are welcome. Mail
the editors.
Last update: 24-02-04
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