Word and Sentence Prosody: The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima Japanese

Haruo Kubozono

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

Word and Sentence Prosody

The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima Japanese

Haruo Kubozono

Volume 31 in the series Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730074

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About this book

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated from mainland dialects by the sea, this dialect exhibits unique prosodic features not shared by other Japanese dialects. It also exhibits considerable regional variations among the ten or more small villages that were isolated from each other until recently.
Based on the author’s fieldwork, the book analyzes word accent and intonation, the two linguistic areas in which this endangered dialect exhibits unique features and remarkable regional variations within itself. They include the emergence and development of a secondary H tone, postlexical deletion of the primary H tone, and the L boundary tone in question and vocative intonation. These phenomena bear crucially on general issues in prosody, including postlexical tonal neutralizations, competitions between lexical and postlexical tones, and the number of tones that a syllable can maximally bear. The book thus demonstrates the relevance of studying an endangered language/dialect in general linguistic contexts.

Author / Editor information

Haruo Kubozono, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL),
Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Introduction to Japanese phonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2 Typological features of KosJ word prosody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3 Emergence of a secondary H Tone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4 Syllable and accent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5 Postlexical deletion of lexical H Tone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
6 Question and vocative prosody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
7 Other aspects of sentence prosody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
8 Summary and prospect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and students of Phonetics, Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Typology and Japanese.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 92
- Maps: 6
- Tables: 22
Keywords: Koshikijima Japanese; Endangered Language; Word Prosody; Sentence Prosody

eBook

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110730074

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110735055

Paperback

Published: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111523156