This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese

The core data is laid out, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study

This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different

The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the v

This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of research in laboratory phonology. Laboratory phonology denotes a research perspective, not a specific theory: it