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

Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to co

This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment

The third edition of this established textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised. It maintains its broad coverage of topics from phonetics to language var

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