Phonetics and phonology of moras, feet and geminate consonants in Japanese

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Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of Past Studies of Moras, Feet, and Geminate Consonants in Japanese Chapter 2: An exploration of the psychological reality of isochrony in Japanese rhythm Chapter 3: The phonological reality of the bimoraic foot and its influence on pre-nasal shortening in Japanese Chapter 4: Effects of the bimoraic foot on Japanese perception of rhymes from Japanese and English sequences Chapter 5: An acoustic investigation of Q duration in Japanese Chapter 6: An acoustic investigation of RDV in relation to vowel height and of the importance of VOT in determining geminate consonant duration in Japanese Chapter 7: An investigation of the occurence of geminate consonants in English loanwords in Japanese Chapter 8: An acoustic investigation of Japanese geminate consonant perception from English loanword (C)VC(V)(C) sequences Chapter 9: The effect of speaking rate on Japanese geminate consonant perception from Japanese CVCV and English CVC sequences Chapter 10: A comparative study of geminate consonants in Japanese and Italian Chapter 11: Structure and interpretation of Japanese rhythm Chapter 12: The geminicity of the nasal sequence [nn] in Japanese Chapter 13: A study of consonant gemination in Japanese compound words composed of Sino-Japanese disyllabic morphemes Chapter 14: The bilabialization of /h/ preceded by N in Japanese counting words beginning with /h/

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