Some Issues In Japanese Accent

Authors

  • Kenneth L. Miner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.635

Keywords:

Japanese language-- Accents and accentuation

Abstract

Previous treatments of Japanese accent have regarded accent as a diacritic feature on the basis of which pitch patterns are predicted by general rules. I will show here that there are reasons for regarding pitch as inherently present in Japanese words, and will offer a tentative analysis founded on this assumption.

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Vol. 17 (1992): Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume 17, (1992)

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How to Cite

Miner, . K. L. (1992). Some Issues In Japanese Accent. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 17, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.635