This page will be updated as readings are assigned. Required course readings are highlighted.
Phonetics and phonology
General
- Kubozono, Haruo (2015). Chapter 1, "Introduction," sec 2, "Vowel inventory". In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [UNC direct link, or see Canvas "Course Reserves"]
- Hayes, Bruce (2009). Chapter 1, "Phonetics," sec 1.4, "Consonants". Introductory phonology. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell. [UNC direct link, or see Canvas "Course Reserves"]
- Kawahara, Shigeto (2015). Chapter 11, "The phonology of Japanese accent," sec 1, "Introduction". In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [UNC direct link, or see Canvas "Course Reserves"]
- optional: Tsujimura, Natsuko (2014). Chapter 3, sec 3, "Mora vs. syllable." An introduction to Japanese linguistics, pp 65-75. Malden, MA: Wiley. [Physical copy on reserve for this course]
Advanced
- optional:
Tsuchida, Ayako (2001). "Japanese vowel devoicing: Cases of consecutive voicing environments." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10: 225-245.
[UNC direct link]
- optional:
Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester (1999). "The phonological lexicon." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The handbook of Japanese linguistics, 62-100. Oxford: Blackwell.
[downloadable version]
| [access through UNC Libraries]
- optional:
Mester, R. Armin, and Junko Ito (1989). "Feature predictability and underspecification: Palatal prosody in Japanese mimetics." Language 65(2): 258-293.
[UNC direct link]
- optional:
Kubozono, Haruo (1999). "Mora and syllable."
In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The handbook of Japanese linguistics, 31-61. Oxford: Blackwell.
[access through UNC Libraries]
- optional:
Smith, Jennifer L. (in press).
"Loanword phonology."
In Adam Jardine & Paul de Lacy (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of phonology, 2edn.
Cambridge: Cambrige Universty Press.
[pre-publication version]
- optional: Smith, Jennifer L., and Yuka Tashiro (2019). "Nonce-loan judgments and impossible-nativization effects in Japanese." In Patrick Farrell (ed.), Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 4, article #26. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.