5 Diphthongs and vowel coalescence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics vii
4. Table of contents xxxv
5. Contributors xxxvii
6. I Introduction to Japanese phonetics and phonology 1
7. II Segmental phonetics and phonology
8. 1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents 43
9. 2 The phonology of sokuon, or geminate obstruents 79
10. 3 The emergence of new consonant contrasts 121
11. 4 Vowel devoicing 167
12. 5 Diphthongs and vowel coalescence 215
13. III Morphophonology
14. 6 The phonological lexicon and mimetic phonology 253
15. 7 Sino-Japanese phonology 289
16. 8 Loanword phonology 313
17. 9 Word formation and phonological processes 363
18. 10 Rendaku 397
19. IV Prosody
20. 11 The phonology of Japanese accent 445
21. 12 Mora and mora-timing 493
22. 13 Intonation 525
23. 14 Syntax–phonology interface 569
24. V Broader perspectives
25. 15 Historical phonology 621
26. 16 Corpus-based phonetics 651
27. 17 L1 phonology: phonological development 681
28. 18 L2 phonetics and phonology 719
29. Subject index 763