Prominence in a Pitch Language

Shinobu Mizuguchi is professor emeritus of linguistics at Kobe University.Koichi Tateishi is professor of linguistics at Kobe College.

• Chapter 1 What is Prominence? How is it Perceived?Chapter 2 Non-focal and Focal ProminenceChapter 3 Focal Prominence on Lexical WordChapter 4 Focal Prominence without Lexical AccentChapter 5 Neurocognitive Processing of ProminenceChapter 6 Prominence in Spontaneous JapaneseChapter 7 What Does Prominence Do in Japanese?

Using a variety of methods—including production and perception tests, fMRI, and Rapid Prosodic Transcription—the authors challenge some basic assumptions that have informed the study of Japanese sentence-level prominence over the past thirty years. This book is a welcome new perspective on a well-studied topic.