Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology
Haruo Kubozono
De Gruyter Mouton
This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing all the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. While reviewing important studies in the fields over the past century, it also presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in the literature. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to Japanese phonetics and phonology for all interested in linguistics and speech sciences including phonetic processing, speech perception and speech production.