![]() ![]() Without aiming at exhaustivity, let us mention the works of James McCawley in the 1960s (classical generative phonology), Haraguchi Shôsuke in the 1970s (non-linear phonology), Itô Junko and Armin Mester in the 1980s and 1990s (underspecification theory, Optimality Theory), and Kubozono Haruo in the 1990s and 2000s (Optimality Theory). One should recall that many aspects of Japanese phonology have contributed to the advance of modern phonological theory in a significant manner. The aim is to provide a synthesis of two major research streams: that of Japanese traditional linguistics and philology, kokugogaku, which is characterized by its data-oriented approach, a strong philological background, and careful attention to the empirical realities of the language, but which, unfortunately, seems to be largely ignored outside Japan in spite of its excellence and remarkable achievements (see the seminal works by Kindaichi Haruhiko, Hashimoto Shinkichi, Hattori Shirô, Hamada Atsushi, Kamei Takashi, and many others) that of Western scholarship, for which Japanese has often served as a test ground for newly developing theories. of 23Ģ Introduction First, it will present the actual state of the art of Japanese phonology, based on a compilation of recent and older Western and Japanese materials, reflecting current debates in Japanese phonology. ![]() Keywords: Japanese language, periodisation, Japanese writing system, Chinese characters, two kana syllabaries, Latin, Yamato words, Sino-Japanese words, Western words The Phonology of Japanese offers a comprehensive overview of the phonological structure of modern Japanese from its segmental to its prosodic and accentual structure. It also presents the writing system of modern Japanese, made of a mixture of Chinese characters, two kana syllabaries and Latin alphabet, and describes and discusses the issue of the lexicon partition into Yamato, Sino-Japanese and Western words. 1 Introduction University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online The Phonology of Japanese Laurence Labrune Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012 DOI: /acprof:oso/ Introduction Laurence Labrune DOI: /acprof:oso/ Abstract and Keywords This first chapter provides a general introduction to the book, presenting its aims, methods, theoretical background, the status, origins, and periodisation of the Japanese language, as well as the previous scholarship written on the subject of Japanese phonology.
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