Japanese Tone Structure

摘要: "Japanese Tone Structure" provides a thorough, phonetically grounded description of accent and intonation in Tokyo Japanese uses it to develop an explicit account surface phonological representation. The unusual amount quantitative phonetic data analyzed its testing detailed model make this important new study for theoretical phonologists, phoneticians, specialists Japanese.The authors' broader purpose, however, is general theory representation that can capture salient facts about prosodic structure all languages provide suitable input rules. integrates autosegmental principles into metrical structures formalism. work establishes phonology phonetics as productive area cognitive science.Janet B. Pierrehumbert member the technical staff Department Artificial Intelligence Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mary E. Beckman Assistant Professor Department. Linguistics Ohio State University. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph.