Nobutaka Takara

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nobutaka Takara is involved.

Articles

Takara, Nobutaka 2012 The weight of head nouns in noun-modifying constructions in conversational Japanese Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 33–72 | Article

This paper investigates the weight of head nouns in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) in conversational Japanese. In my data about 70% of head nouns are ‘light’, 20% of the nouns are ‘heavy’, and the remaining is in a ‘gray zone.’ As a close observation of NMCs reveals the issues of two-way… read more

Gordon, Matthew, Carmen Dagostino, Carlos Nash and Nobutaka Takara 2010 Syllable structure and extrametricality: A typological and phonetic study Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 131–166 | Article

This paper proposes a functional basis for final consonant extrametricality, the asymmetric status of CVC syllables as stress-attracting in non-final position of a word but stress-rejecting in final position. A typological study of phonemic vowel length pattern in 10 languages with this final vs.… read more