Some Issues In Japanese Accent

Previous treatments of Japanese accent have regarded accent as a diacritic feature on the basis of which pitch patterns are predicted by general rules. I will show here that there are reasons for regarding pitch as inherently present in Japanese words, and will offer a tentative analysis founded on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miner, Kenneth L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1992-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/635