Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan
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Volume 1, Issue 1
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Foreword
Feature Articles: Features on the Education of Phonetics: Its Present State and Problems
Research Articles
  • Durational Features of English Sounds: Comparison between Native Speakers of English and Japanese College Students
    Kazuaki ICHIZAKI
    Article type: Article
    1997 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 25-37
    Published: April 30, 1997
    Released on J-STAGE: August 31, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.1.1_25
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    An experiment on the duration of English sounds was conducted using small to large units as a corpus: CVC-structured monosyllabic words, disyllabic words in which the stress pattern differentiates between nouns and verbs, phrases and compounds spelled in the same way, and a series of sentences in which the number of function words increases gradually. In the pronunciation of the English subjects, the well-known phenomenon of temporal compensation was corroborated between the vowel and the following voiced/voiceless consonant but not between the long/short vowel and the following consonant in monosyllabic words, or between any segment in the disyllabic words cited above. English pronounced by the Japanese subjects, on the other hand, showed phonetic features of Japanese such as pitch accent and mora-timing.
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  • Voicing Agreement in Romanian
    Kan SASAKI
    Article type: Article
    1997 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 38-53
    Published: April 30, 1997
    Released on J-STAGE: August 31, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.1.1_38
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    In Romanian, most obstruent sequences agree with regard to the value of [voice]. This voicing agreement is due to regressive assimilation conditioned by segmental adjacency. Previous treatments (Lombardi 1995a,b) in Optimality Theory fail to capture this phenomenon because they rely heavily on syllable structure. In this paper we argue that defining the Position-Specific Identity Constraint in terms of segmental adjacency instead of syllable structure can offer a better account of the phenomenon under consideration. There are two kinds of exceptions to this phenomenon. One is caused by the OCP effect on root nodes, while the other can be described as under-application of phonological processes caused by the higher-ranked Output-to-Output Identity Constraint.
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  • Accent Shift beyond the Foot Boundary: Evidence from Tokyo Japanese Compound Nouns
    Teruo YOKOTANI
    Article type: Article
    1997 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 54-62
    Published: April 30, 1997
    Released on J-STAGE: August 31, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.1.1_54
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    In the Tokyo dialect of Japanese, High Vowel Devoicing can cause the accent nucleus to move away from its expected position. Based on compound noun data, this article shows that the domain in which the accent finds its landing site is not the foot, but must be extended to a higher-level prosodic constituent that consists of the accented foot and one of its neighbors. As a byproduct, postulation of this higher-level constituent contributes to an explanation of the mysterious accent pattern inheritance exhibited by compound nouns with a "long" right-hand element.
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Review
  • John Laver: Principles of Phonetics, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxviii+707pp.
    Shigeru TAKEBAYASHI
    Article type: Article
    1997 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 63-66
    Published: April 30, 1997
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    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.1.1_63
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    The writer's goal in this book is to establish a unified system for classifying aspects of phonetic production observed in the languages of the world. He emphasizes the importance of phonetic data, but he also warns that data should be handled within the framework of theory. The description is thorough and comprehensive, but the writer succeeds as well in offering the reader an analytic perspective on phonetics. This is an indispensable reference book for all students of phonetics. The section at the end of each chapter listing further reading is especially useful.
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