"This book provides a clear account of the temporal organization of Japanese phonology, especially the phonetic and phonological nature of moras, feet, and gemi

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including A

This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment

Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanes

This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese