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Analytic bias and phonological typology *
- Adam Albright, A. Kaun, P. Smolensky
- Linguistics
- 2008
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
- S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 1 September 2006
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A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
- K. Shinohara, S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 24 August 2010
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…
Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions
- Christopher Potts, S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 9 September 2004
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…
Contextual effects on the perception of duration
- J. Kingston, S. Kawahara, Della Chambless, Daniel Mash, Eve Brenner-Alsop
- Psychology, PhysicsJ. Phonetics
- 4 May 2006
Voicing and geminacy in Japanese: An acoustic and perceptual study
- S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 2005
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
- S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 22 March 2007
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…
1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents
- S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 31 January 2015
Sonorancy and geminacy
- S. Kawahara
- Linguistics
- 1 July 2005
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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