Japanese pitch-accent: cross-linguistic perceptions by speakers of stress- and pitch-accent languages
This thesis investigates the perception of Japanese pitch accent by native speakers of pitch-accent languages and stress-accent languages. In particular, it seeks to determine whether or not pitch accent is a salient feature across language boundaries. An experiment was conducted to compare the corr...
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7107 |