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Prominence in a Pitch Language

The Production and Perception of Japanese

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Prominence in a Pitch Language

The Production and Perception of Japanese

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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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?
Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence
Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word
Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent
Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence
Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese
Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?

Product details

Published Jun 21 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 142
ISBN 9781793645852
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 28 b/w illustrations; 22 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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