Japanese phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Japanese phonology


00:00:55 1 Consonants
00:04:04 1.1 Weakening
00:06:49 1.2 Palatalization and affrication
00:08:45 1.3 span/d, z/
00:09:43 1.4 Moraic nasal
00:11:22 1.5 Gemination
00:14:21 1.6 Sandhi
00:14:51 2 Vowels
00:15:16 2.1 Devoicing
00:17:30 2.2 Nasalization
00:18:39 2.3 Glottal stop insertion
00:18:57 3 Phonotactics
00:19:37 4 Accent
00:21:32 5 Sound change
00:22:01 5.1 Sandhi
00:22:37 5.1.1 Rendaku
00:22:45 5.1.2 Gemination
00:23:24 5.1.3 Renjō
00:24:39 5.2 Onbin
00:25:11 5.2.1 Verb conjugation
00:26:32 5.2.2 Polite adjective forms
00:27:18 5.2.3 i-hito/i
00:27:27 5.2.4 Fusion
00:28:53 6 Notes
00:30:18 7 References



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SUMMARY
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The phonology of Japanese has about 15 consonant phonemes, the cross-linguistically typical five-vowel system of /a, e, i, o, u/, and a relatively simple phonotactic distribution of phonemes allowing few consonant clusters. It is traditionally described as having moras as the unit of timing, with each mora taking up about the same length of time, so that the disyllabic [ɲip.poɴ] ("Japan") may be analyzed as /niQpoN/ and dissected into four moras, /ni/, /Q/, /po/, and /N/.
Standard Japanese is a pitch-accent language, wherein the position or absence of a pitch drop may determine the meaning of a word: /haꜜsiɡa/ "chopsticks", /hasiꜜɡa/ "bridge", /hasiɡa/ "edge" (see Japanese pitch accent).
Unless otherwise noted, the following describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect.