This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese

Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to co

This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different

This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment

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