Shoji Takano

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shoji Takano is involved.

Articles

Takano, Shoji and Ichiro Ota 2017 A sociophonetic approach to variation in Japanese pitch realizations: Region, age, gender and stylistic parameters Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:1, pp. 5–40 | Article

This paper explores the flattening of Japanese sentential pitch as a possible nationwide change in progress among younger generations. Comparative data collected by identical protocols are examined in terms of speakers’ age, gender, and native dialects (in the city of Sapporo and in a rural town… read more

Takano, Shoji 2008 Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 285–328 | Chapter

Adamson, H.D., Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber, Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Vincent Scardino and Shoji Takano 1996 Tense Marking in the English of Spanish-speaking Adolescents Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article