Beschreibung:
Introduction : an overview of past studies of moras, feet, and geminate consonants in Japanese -- An exploration of the psychological reality of isochrony in Japanese rhythm -- The phonological reality of the bimoraic foot and its influence on pre-nasal shortening in Japanese -- Effects of the bimoraic foot on Japanese perception of rhymes from Japanese and English sequences -- An acoustic investigation of Q duration in Japanese -- An acoustic investigation of RDV in relation to vowel height and of the importance of VOT in determining geminate consonant duration in Japanese -- An investigation of the occurrence of geminate consonants in English loanwords in Japanese -- An acoustic investigation of Japanese geminate consonant perception from English loanword (C)VC(V)(C) sequences -- The effect of speaking rate on Japanese geminate consonant perception from Japanese CVCV and English CVC sequences -- A comparative study of geminate consonants in Japanese and Italian -- Structure and interpretation of Japanese rhythm -- The geminicity of the nasal sequence [nn] in Japanese -- A study of consonant gemination in Japanese compound words composed of Sino-Japanese disyllabic morphemes -- The bilabialization of /h/ preceded by N in Japanese counting words beginning with /h