The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants

by Kubozono, Haruo

• ISBN13: 9780191816420
• ISBN10: 0191816426
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-06-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Haruo Kubozono completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1988. He taught phonetics and phonology at Nanzan University, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and Kobe University before moving to the National Institute for Japanese Languages and Linguistics as Professor/Director in 2010. His research interests range from speech disfluencies to speech prosody and its interfaces with syntax and information structure. He recently edited The Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology (2015, De Gruyter Mouton) as well as special issues on pitch accent and geminate consonants in Lingua (2012) and Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2013), respectively.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Haruo Kubozono
PART I: Production and Perception of Geminate Consonants
1. Spectral continuity, amplitude changes, and perception of length contrasts, Shigeto Kawahara and Melanie Pangilinan
2. Production of geminate consonants in Russian: Implications for typology, Olga Dmitrieva
3. Word-initial geminates: From production to perception, Rachid Ridouane and Pierre A. Halle
4. Effects of duration and phonological length of the preceding/following segments on perception of the length contrast in Japanese, Hajime Takeyasu and Mikio Giriko
5. Articulatory coordination in long and short consonants - an effect of rhythm class?, Anders Lofqvist
6. The acquisition of long consonants in Norwegian, Elinor Payne, Brechtje Post, Nina Gram Garmann, and Hanne Gram Simonsen
7. Second language learners' production of geminate consonants in Japanese, Yukari Hirata
PART II: Phonology of Geminate Consonants
8. Bengali geminates: processing and representation, Sandra Kotzor, Allison Wetterlin, and Aditi Lahiri
9. Asymmetric processing of consonant duration in Swiss German, Lara Ehrenhofer, Adam C. Roberts, Sandra Kotzor, Allison Wetterlin and Aditi Lahiri
10. Geminates and weight manipulating phonology in Chuukese (Trukese), Stuart Davis
11. On the weight of edge geminates, Nina Topintzi and Stuart Davis
12. A prosodic account of consonant gemination in Japanese loanwords, Junko Ito, Haruo Kubozono and Armin Mester
13. The relation between L2 perception and L1 phonology in Japanese loanwords: An analysis of geminates in loanwords from Italian, Shin'ichi Tanaka
14. Korean speakers' perception of Japanese geminates: Evidence for an L1 grammar-driven borrowing process, Hyunsoon Kim
References
Index