Katsura Aoyama
Springer US
2001e druk, 2000
9780792372165
A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody
Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions
Specificaties
Gebonden, 172 blz.
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Engels
Springer US |
2001e druk, 2000
ISBN13: 9780792372165
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
In this monograph Katsura Aoyama presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author deftly describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. This is an important work for those interested in recent developments in theoretical and psycholinguistics.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780792372165
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:172
Uitgever:Springer US
Druk:2001
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Background. 3. Preliminary survey: Frequencies of long vowels and geminate consonants in Finnish and Japanese. 4. Discrimination boundary between the single and geminate consonants. 5. Discrimination boundary between the single and geminate consonants: A cross-linguistic study. 6. Acquisition of the nasal quantity contrasts. 7. Discussion: Overall cross-linguistic comparison. 8. Summary and conclusion. References. Appendix I: Waveforms and spectrograms for the words hana and hanna. Appendix II: Sample pictures and questions. Appendix III: Data from experiments 1 and 2. Appendix IV: Data from experiments 3 and 4. Appendix V: Data from experiments 5 and 6. Appendix VI: Data from experiments 7 and 8.