Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations: Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai

Takano, Shoji

doi:10.1075/pbns.180.00var

In:Style Shifting in Japanese
Edited by Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 180] 2008
► pp. 285–328

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Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai

Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations

Shoji Takano | Hokusei Gakuen University

Published online: 17 December 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.180.00var

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2017. A sociophonetic approach to variation in Japanese pitch realizations. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:1 ► pp. 5 ff.

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