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Table of Contents (Vol.4)

Vol.4 No.1
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Phonetics of Ryukyu Dialects
Preface Masao Aizawa 3
An Outline of Ryukyuan Phonetics Yukio Uemura 4
Spirantization of Stops in the Northern Ryukyuan Dialect of Japanese Shigehisa Karimata 19
Phonetic Substance of Neutral Vowels in the South Ryukyu Dialects Makio Oono, Makoto Kuno, Takao Sugimura and Mariko Kuno 28
Controversial Topics on Miyako dialect Motoei Sawaki 36
Aspects of the Accents of the Amami Dialects of Japanese Zendo Uwano 42
Research Articles
Vowel Coalescence across Consonants: The Phenomenon in Ryukyuan Dialects Wayne P. Lawrence 55
The Development of Word Lists for Ryukyuan Accent Research, Based on the Dialects of Okinoerabu Island Akiko Matsumori 61
Tribute
Obituary and Tribute to Professor Kazuo Nakano Tsutomu Sugawara, Taka Bluhme-Kojima and Keiichi Kojima 72
Vol.4 No.2
Title Author page
“Trends in Database for Phonetic Research”
Preface Kikuo Maekawa 3
The Japanese Map Task Dialogue Corpus Akira Ichikawa, Yasuo Horiuchi and Syun Tutiya 4
Database for Conversational Speech Translation Research at ATR Toshiyuki Takezawa, Atsushi Nakamura and Eiichiro Sumita 16
CallHome Japanese Corpus Yasuharu Den and John Fry 24
The X-ray Microbeam Speech Production Database in Japanese Michiko Hashi 31
CD-ROM Accent Dictionary of Spoken Osaka and Tokyo Japanese Miyoko Sugito 36
“On the NTT Psycholinguistic Databases “Lexical Properties of Japanese” Shigeaki Amano and Kimihisa Kondo 44
Design of the Corpus of Spntaneous Japanese Kikuo Maekawa, Takayuki Kagomiya, Hanae Koiso, Hideki Ogura and Hideaki Kikuchi 51
Research Articles
Developmental Change of 5 to 8-month-old Infants’ Preferential Listening Response for the Native Dialect Ryoko Mugitani, Akiko Hayashi and Shigeru Kiritani 62
Effect of Following Vowel on Perception of Second Language Fricatives -Native language interference in Russian learners of Japanese- Seiya Funatsu and Shigeru Kiritani 72
Vol.4 No.3
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“Challenges in Phonetics and Phonetic Sciences”
Preface Kikuo Maekawa 3
Study of Prosody and Speech Sounds Miyoko Sugito 4
Phonetic and Phonological Studies in Linguistics Tamotsu Koizumi 8
Japanese Dialectology Fumio Inoue 12
Problems of Phonetic Studies in Japanese Dialects Ryoichi Sato 16
Use of Fieldwork Data in the Study of Dialect Speech Koyo Yamaguchi 18
Comparative Studies of Linguitic Accents Uwano Zendo 22
About Unsolved Problems in Japanese Phonological History Akiyoshi Kida 24
Tonality of Japanese Accent Shin Kawakami 28
Universal Characteristics of Voiced-Voiceless Contrasts Katsumasa Shimizu 32
An Overview of the Generative Phonology of Korean Hideyuki Hirano 34
Issues in Optimality Theory Haruo Kubozono 36
How to Become an Arm-Chair Phonologist Koichi Tateishi 40
Challenges in Psycholinguistics Morio Kohno 44
Some Issues of Spoken Language Processing in Psycholinguistics Takashi Otake 46
Variation Theory and Phonological Theory Junko Hibiya 49
Strategies and Targets for Speech Production Studies Kiyoshi Honda 51
Missing Link Hideki Kasuya 55
Speech Metacommunication Yasuhiro Katagiri 57
Perspectives on Speech Recognition Technology Sadaoki Furui 60
Spoken Language Research as a Human Science Yoshinori Sagisaka 64
A Presentation in Japanese to the World Seiichi Yamamoto 66
Research Articles
The Intonation of Formal and Informal Speech in British English Kazuyuki Watanabe 70