Prominence in a Pitch Language: The Production and Perception of Japanese

Shinobu Mizuguchi; Koichi Tateishi

doi:10.5771/9781793645869

Summary

This work examines the way in which prominence—a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues—is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4585-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4586-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 130
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
1. 1.1 Previous Studies on Japanese Prosody No access
2. 1.2 The Structure of the Book No access
3. Note No access
1. 2.1 General View No access
2. 2.2 A Case of Japanese No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. 3.1.1 Stimuli and Method No access
  2. 3.1.2 Results and Discussion No access
2. 1. 3.2.1 Methods and Predictions No access
  2. 3.2.2 Results No access
3. 3.3 Discussion No access
4. Notes No access
1. 4.1 Cross-linguistic Variation of Corrective Focus No access
2. 1. 4.2.1 Stimuli and Method No access
  2. 4.2.2 Results No access
3. 4.3 Perception Experiment on English Corrective Focus No access
4. 1. 4.4.1 Acoustic Measures No access
  2. 4.4.2 F0 Peak and Phrasal Tone in Japanese No access
  3. 4.4.3 Is There Any Perception Bias? No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. 5.1.1 Methods and Materials No access
  2. 5.1.2 Results No access
2. 5.2 Discussion No access
3. Note No access
1. 6.1 Methodology: Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) No access
2. 1. 6.2.1 Method and Materials No access
  2. 6.2.2 Results No access
  3. 6.2.3 Discussion No access
3. Notes No access
1. 7.1 How Prosodic Boundary Is Aligned in Japanese No access
2. 7.2 What Is Marked as Prominent in Japanese No access
3. 7.3 Why Two Types of Prominence Cues in Japanese? No access
4. 7.4 Toward Future Study No access
5. Notes No access
1. Exercise Session No access
2. Note No access
1. Exercise Session No access
2. Materials No access
Appendix C No access Pages 93 - 94
Appendix D No access Pages 95 - 98
1. Abbreviations No access
2. Exercise (File # S00f0031) No access
References No access Pages 113 - 124
Index No access Pages 125 - 128
About the Authors No access Pages 129 - 130