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Analytic bias and phonological typology *
Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology: channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive predispositions making…
A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ Voice] in Japanese
TLDR
Empirical support is provided for the P-map hypothesis, whose fundamental tenet is that the rankings of faithfulness constraints are grounded in perceptual-similarity rankings, which suggests that phonetic perceptibility can directly influence patterns in a phonological grammar.
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A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain sound symbolic patterns hold robustly across languages. In particular, we investigate how the images of size…
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Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions
Harada ( 1 976) identifies honorifics as one of "the salient features of the Japanese language" (p. 500) and provides an extensive overview of pressing syntactic is­ sues surrounding this system. But…
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Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions in Yamato Japanese
Contextual effects on the perception of duration
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Voicing and geminacy in Japanese: An acoustic and perceptual study
Maintaining voicing in obstruents is articulatorily challenging. During obstruent closure, intraoral air pressure goes up quickly, and as a consequence it becomes difficult to maintain a sufficient…
Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity
AbstractUsing data from a large-scale corpus, this paper establishes the claim that in Japanese rap rhymes, the degree of similarity of two consonants positively correlates with their likelihood of…
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1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents
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Sonorancy and geminacy
This paper establishes the claim that geminate sonorants are cross-linguistically marked, and furthermore, that the relative sonority of a geminate positively correlates with its markedness, i.e.,…
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