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Japanese loanwords from English exhibit many peculiar patterns with respect to the occurrence of geminate consonants. In this paper we focus on a positional asymmetry whereby coda consonants in the source words tend to be geminated in word-final position but not in word-medial position. Considering this phenomenon both from cross-linguistic and experimental perspectives, we first demonstrate that...
While a number of studies have reported on the prosodic system of Japanese, a vast majority of work that is widely available focuses on Tokyo Japanese. In terms of prosodic organization, however, this dialect represents only one type of pitch accent system of the language, and is different from the pitch accent systems of other dialects in many crucial ways. Looking at various types of pitch accent...
This paper investigates the phonological nature of alphabetic acronyms in Japanese, e.g. PTA, JR, JTB. Japanese dialects exhibit tremendous variation as regards the accent of these alphabetic expressions. We can account for the relevant facts by relating their accent patterns to the compound accent rules of the respective dialects. In other words, Japanese speakers process alphabetic acronyms as compound...
In this paper we analyze loanword accentuation in Japanese with main focus on its relation with native accentuation. At first glance, loanwords display remarkably different accent patterns from native words, with the former but not the latter favoring the accented pattern over the unaccented one. We present statistical evidence that this impression cannot empirically be supported. Loanwords differ...
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