Japanese Tone Structure"Japanese Tone Structure" provides a thorough, phonetically grounded description of accent and intonation in Tokyo Japanese and uses it to develop an explicit account of surface phonological representation. The unusual amount of quantitative phonetic data analyzed and its testing in a detailed model make this an important new study for theoretical phonologists, phoneticians, and specialists in Japanese.The authors' broader purpose, however, is to develop a general theory of surface representation that can capture salient facts about prosodic structure in all languages and provide a suitable input to phonetic rules. The theory integrates autosegmental principles into a metrical account of prosodic structures in an explicit formalism. The work establishes phonology and phonetics as a productive area in cognitive science.Janet B. Pierrehumbert is a member of the technical staff in the Department of Artificial Intelligence Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mary E. Beckman is an Assistant Professor in the Department. of Linguistics at Ohio State University. "Japanese Tone Structure" is a Linguistic Inquiry Monograph. |
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accent H accentual phrase boundary allophony amai amaimame associated autosegmental Beckman boundary tone catathesis chapter contrast data points declination dephrased domain downstep downtrend dynamic tone English extrametrical final lowering fo contour fo peak fo value focus FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY Hz H tones Hausa hertz high-beginning words high-tone line intermediate phrase boundary intonation languages lexical linguistic linked low-beginning word major phrase mora moriya noun obizi oma'warisan Osaka panel peak value phoneme tier phonetic realization rules phonological phonological representation phrasal H phrase node phrase peak Pierrehumbert 1980 pitch accents pitch range Poser preceding phrase predicted produced by speaker proposed prosodic structure prosodic tree reference line rise sequences shown in figure slope stress subject ST substantive elements substantive tier syllable weight target word tion tokens Tokyo Japanese tonal tone languages tone patterns tone structure tone tier treatment triggered uma'i unaccented phrases unaccented words underspecification utterance value in preceding