Using tonal data to recover Japanese language history /

"This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects hav...

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Main Author:	Boer, Elisabeth M. de (Author)
Other Authors:	Unger, J. Marshall (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 365.
Subjects:	Japanese language > Dialects. Tone (Phonetics) Ton (Phonétique) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book