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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2024.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 365. |
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of dialect research and dialect classification of Japanese
- Tone or pitch-accent? Analysis and use of terminology
- The tone systems of the modern dialects
- On the interpretation of Middle Japanese tone notations
- Tracing the tone class divisions
- Outline of tonal developments in the history of Japanese
- The importance of compounds in proto-Japanese reconstruction
- The tone rules for compound nouns in Middle Japanese
- The tones of compounds with long codas in the modern dialects
- The tones of compounds with short codas in the modern dialects
- The genealogy of the dialects on Sea of Japan coast and Kyūshū.