Phonological Complexity in the Japanese Short Poetry: Coexistence Between Nearest-Neighbor Correlations and Far-Reaching Anticorrelations

Sound correlations among six sites on the Japanese short poetry are analyzed in detail. For haiku composed of 5-7-5 syllables, the six sites are occupied by the head vowels on the three phrases as well as by the end sounds (in addition to five vowels, a syllabic nasal being included) on them. For ta...

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Main Author: Kazuya Hayata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2018.00031/full

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