Phonological analysis of casual Japanese speech in optimality theory

The study of casual speech, along with that of children's language acquisition, dialects and aphasia, can provide data of great significance in identifying marked segments and structures of languages. Yet few attempts have been made to model formally variation between formal and casual speech....

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Main Author: Kawai, Junji
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Linguistics 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4632