Japanese mora-timing: A review

N Warner, T Arai - Phonetica, 2001 - karger.com
… However, it is clear that these units are not strictly isochronous, and most tests of mora-timing
In this article, we review the literature on experimental tests of mora-timing in Japanese. …

12 Mora and mora-timing

T Otake - Handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology, 2015 - degruyter.com
Japanese. This is followed by section 5, where we review three interpretations of mora-timing
Section 6 discusses other issues related to mora-timing, followed by a concluding section …

The role of the mora in the timing of spontaneous Japanese speech

N Warner, T Arai - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
… used in controlling timing in Japanese speech, or is instead … Unlike most previous studies
of mora-timing in Japanese, this … For a full review of the literature on Japanese mora-timing, …

Evidence for mora timing in Japanese

RF Port, J Dalby, M O'Dell - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 1987 - pubs.aip.org
Japanese pedagogy has traditionally claimed that moras are constant in duration. Four …
timing in Japanese in order to test several straightforward hypotheses about mora timing. First, it …

Acoustic manifestations of mora timing in Japanese

MS Han - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
… many Japanese-Americans, who speak perfect Japanese … of any sort associated with mora
timing, then the mora could … determine the acoustic correlates of mora timing. In particular, the …

[HTML][HTML] Mora timing by British learners of Japanese

K Nagai - J. Leather & A. James, 1997 - ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp
… and importance of British learners' mora-timing in Japanese: (i) "Does British learners' length
of learning Japanese affect the total duration and mora timing of Japanese words?" and (ii) "…

Mora-Based Temporal Adjustments in Japanese

Y Asano - Colorado Research in Linguistics, 1994 - journals.colorado.edu
… This study looks for evidence of mora timing in Japanese from a … Japanese speakers
and 4 native English speakers and the results supported most of the hypotheses for Japanese

Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm

K Iwamoto, H Kikuchi, R Mazuka - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2022 - Elsevier
… in Japanese constitutes an additional challenge for Japanese… If the durational control of
moras in mora-timed Japanese is … of the regular Japanese curriculum, most Japanese children …

Production of single and geminate stops in Japanese three-and four-mora words

Y Hirata, S Amano - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Portions of this work were presented in “Durational structure of Japanese single/geminate
stops in three-and four-mora words spoken at varied rates,” Proceeding of INTERSPEECH, …

Factors Affecting the Perception of Japanese Moraic Rhythm by Second Language Learners (< Feature Articles> Rhythm and Timing)

Y Hirata - Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
review on the above topic, but rather focuses on three important factors that affect non-native
speakers' auditory learning of Japanese … overrides the general mora-timing rules in which …