Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Voicing in Japanese 1
4. Part I – Consonant voice
5. Rendaku: Its domain and linguistic conditions 5
6. Sequential voicing, postnasal voicing, and Lyman’s Law revisited 25
7. Sei-daku: diachronic developments in the writing system 47
8. The representation of laryngeal-source contrasts in Japanese 71
9. Rendaku in inflected words 89
10. Ranking paradoxes in consonant voicing in Japanese 105
11. The implicational distribution of prenasalized stops in Japanese 123
12. The correlation between accentuation and Rendaku in Japanese surnames: a morphological account 157
13. A survey of Rendaku in loanwords 177
14. Recognizing Japanese numeral-classifier combinations 191
15. Part II – Vowel voice
16. Corpus-based analysis of vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese: an interim report 205
17. Syllable structure and its acoustic effects on vowels in devoicing environments 229
18. The effect of speech rate on devoiced accented vowels in Osaka Japanese 247
19. Where voicing and accent meet: their function, interaction, and opacity problems in phonological prominence 261
20. Backmatter 279