[PDF][PDF] The classification of the Japonic languages

E De Boer - The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages, 2020 - academia.edu
The chapter starts with an overview of the history of dialect classification in Japan. A
puzzling aspect of the distribution pattern of the Japanese dialects is the fact that many …

Early compound accent in Japanese Tōkyō-type dialects

C Griesenhofer, P Loukareas… - … 2019: Selected papers …, 2024 - books.google.com
Japanese pitch accent is of great interest to historical linguists due to its relative stability.
Japanese dialects can be grouped into accent types and subtypes, and their similarities may …

[图书][B] The Historical Development of Initial Accent in Trimoraic Nouns in Kyoto Japanese

A Angeles - 2019 - search.proquest.com
This paper discusses the pathway, motivating factors, and mechanism of the historical
development of the initial accent pattern in trimoraic nouns in Kyoto Japanese, tracing its …

[PDF][PDF] The Ramsey hypothesis

EM de Boer - academia.edu
Ever since the 1930s linguists have been documenting and studying the tone systems of the
Japanese dialects. Comparing these with older sources on the tones, they have tried to …