Japanese Mora-Timing: A Review
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Natasha Warner
und Takayuki Arai
Abstract
Japanese is often called a ‘mora-timed’ language, and contrasted with ‘stress- timed’ or ‘syllable-timed’ languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone several revisions, and a wide variety of experimental evidence both for and against mora-timing has been presented. This article reviews the hypotheses, the means of testing them, and the results of nearly 40 years of experimental work on mora-timing in Japanese, and suggests directions for future work in this area.
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- Original Paper
- Japanese Mora-Timing: A Review
- Fundamental Frequency Peak Delay in Mandarin
- Mancunian Intonation and Intonational Representation
- Acoustic Vowel Reduction in Creek: Effects of Distinctive Length and Position in the Word
- The Identification of English Consonants by Native Speakers of Italian
- Further Section
- Publications Received for Review