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This work examines the way in which prominence—a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues—is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.



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Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?

Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence

Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word

Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent

Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence

Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese

Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?

Prominence in a Pitch Language: The Production

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: 21/06/2023
      ISBN13: 9781793645852, 978-1793645852
      ISBN10: 179364585X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This work examines the way in which prominence—a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues—is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?

      Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal Prominence

      Chapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical Word

      Chapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical Accent

      Chapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of Prominence

      Chapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous Japanese

      Chapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?

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