Ichiro Ota

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ichiro Ota is involved.

Article

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