Essays about: "Japanese prosody"

Found 3 essays containing the words Japanese prosody.

  1. 1. L2 intonation by Swedish learners of Japanese:Analysis of pitch accent and prosodic phrasing errors

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Natsumi Goto; [2020]
    Keywords : L2 Japanese intonation; Swedish learners of Japanese; L2 errors at the phrasal and sentence levels; pitch accent.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the L2 intonation of Swedish learners of Japanese with a focus on pitch accent and prosodic phrasing errors. Previous studies have attempted to predict L2 learners’ difficulties and errors, such as Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) by Lado (1957) and Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) by Eckman (1977; 1985). READ MORE

  3. 2. The Transcription of Foreign Personal Names into Kanji

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Joel Fredriksson; [2017]
    Keywords : Japanese onomastics; Japanese toponymy; Japanese prosody; bimoraic segmentation; kirakira names; on reading; kun reading; loan names; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study relates to the transcription of foreign personal names into kanji in Japanese. The study is based upon a paper where Tokimoto & d’Arcais (2000) confirmed three working principles when natives transcribe place names written in hiragana: that jukugo reading will be preferred over juubako reading, that as few kanji segmentations as possible will be used, and that the names will be segmented bimoraically from the beginning of the word. READ MORE

  4. 3. Prosodic features in "enka". The relationship between the melody of lyrics in "enka" and the prosody of Japanese

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Máté Sall Vesselényi; [2013-08-23]
    Keywords : enka; prosodic features; melody of lyrics; prosody of Japanese;

    Abstract : Previous research on the relationship between the melody of lyrics and Japanese prosody has only approached the topic on a word accent level. In this paper, however, I examined to what extent four best-seller enka manifest prosody with reference to larger prosodic units. READ MORE