Japanese Mora-Timing: A Review
- 17 November 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Phonetica
- Vol. 58 (1-2), 1-25
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000028486
Abstract
Japanese is often called a ‘mora-timed’ language, and contrasted with ‘stress- timed’ or ‘syllable-timed’ languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone several revisions, and a wide variety of experimental evidence both for and against mora-timing has been presented. This article reviews the hypotheses, the means of testing them, and the results of nearly 40 years of experimental work on mora-timing in Japanese, and suggests directions for future work in this area.Keywords
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