Phonetics and Phonology (Sound System)
Bilabial
Stop
Nasal
Labiodental Interdental Alveolar
P, B
M
Palatal
Velar
T ,D
Glottal
K , g
N
N
S Z
Q
Fricative
H
E, F
Affricate
Glide
Liquid
W
J
F
W
There are 17 consonants in Japan phonemes chart. In English there is no Q in phoneme
but in Japanese they have. Also Japanese phoneme doesn’t have Glide, Labiodental,
affricate and interdental sound. Most consonant is in the Alveolar and Stop and 7
consonants on Stop.
The Japanese are almost the same as English. But there are 1 vowel sound that makes it
different is W. And I in Japanese is high vowel, also U in Japanese are high as well but there
are different high vowel in Japanese because there are high front and high back.
Plural in Japanese there are no S adding Japanese
Syntactical Description
English
Translation
English word
I fly
私は飛ぶ
I fly
I kick dog
私は犬を蹴る
I the dog kick
superman fly high
スーパーマンは高く飛ぶ
Superman high fly
My father wash a car
私の父洗浄車
My father a car wash
My brother read a book
兄は本を読む
My brother a book read
I watch movie
私は、映画鑑賞
I movie watch
I love you
愛しています
I you love
Chart
I watch a movie
My father washes a car
I love you
Paragraph:
Basically verbs are always come last for example I love you in Japanese they change to I you love.
PSR structure:
S=NP+VP
PP=NP+P
Japanese
犬
IPA
English
Dog
愛
Love
猫
Cat
Japanese
見る
IPA
English
Watch
バッグ
Bag
オンライン
Online
Morphological Analysis
翻= Translation 訳= Reason Translate
日=Day 付= with
Date
家=House 族=Family
Example Free and Bound morpheme.
Free morpheme
In English
Dog
犬
Bound morpheme
書く
In English
Write
猫
Cat
ドリンク
Drink
水
Water
愛さ
Loved
Morpheme in Japanese
-ed in Japanese is “ta”
For example walked = 歩いた (Aruita)
There is No change in Plural word.
For example Dog =犬 (Inu)
Dogs =犬 (Inu)
For example change word eat 食べる
Eats食べ物
Example in Allomorph
Other morphemes
-ion
Mission =ミッション
Conduction=伝導
Impossible =不可能
Important =重要
Dis- (ai)
Discovery =発見
Disgust =嫌悪感
Varieties of Language
I choose Kansai and Kanto because Kanto is the capital city of japan recently. Nevertheless
Kansai used to be an old town. It used to be a famous town.
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Geographic
Kansai accent distinguishes words also by high/low-initial accents
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Phonological & Phonetic
strong vowels and contrasted with Tokyo dialect
Vowels
/u/ is nearer to [u] than to [ɯ], as it is in Tokyo.
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Lexical
Lexical nominalization with some important things for the level and type of
projection.
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Morphological

On morphological side there is derivational means and by free or semi-free
morphemes.
Syntactical
Some qualify as a clausal nominalization.
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Other (optional)
There is no other optional.
http://sils.shoin.ac.jp/KACL/02/045w.html
http://www.kansaiben.com/1.Characteristics/1.Standardvskansai/2Standardvskansai.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_dialect
the word for "now" is [iꜜma], with the accent on the
equivalently, with a downstep in pitch between the first and
second
Kansai
hashi
Tokyo
English
橋
H-L
L-H(-L)
bridge
箸
L-H
H-L
chopsticks
端
H-H
L-H(-H)
edge
日本
H-L-L
L-H-L
Japan
二本
L-L-H
H-L-L
2 hon
nihon
kon'nichiwa こんにちは L-H-L-L-H L-H-H-H-H Good afternoon
Arigatoo
ありがとう L-L-L-H-L L-H-L-L-L
Thanks
the word for "now" is [iꜜma], with the accent on the
equivalently, with a downstep in pitch between the first and
second
Kansai is not really common in Japan now a day because the government changes to all
of the Japanese people to speak standard Japanese.
Accent
The accent of kansai is use in the south of Japan. Kansai is a strong accent because the
difference
Between Kansai and standard Japanese is accent
The Kansai accent has an identity in you like the Thai people. Thai people in
The north will speak slow and in Bangkok is use a standard Thai. The standard Japanese is
use in
. The Japanese language and Chinese language, some words are same writing. Kanji in
Japanese is same as Chinese. The accent of Tokyo and Kansai are different kind of accent
by the
Tokyo will be down step but in Kansai can be both high and low.
Example between Kansai and Tokyo
Arigato ありがとう L-L-L-H-L L-H-L-L-L Thanks
kon'nichiwa こんにちは L-H-L-L-H L-H-H-H-H Good afternoon
Kansai Tokyo English
The Kansai-ben is easy to listen because the accent will be different from Tokyo. The
Author of the cartoon in Japan is usually use kansai-ben in the story. For example in
Detective conan, Some part will have person from Osaka. The person from Osaka will speak
The accent of kansai-ben.
Dialects
In Japan have many several of language. Types of Dialect are such as, morphology,
Vocabulary and accent. The different between Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka, in Kyoto Osaka use
Kansai. In the north of Japan such as, Hokkaido and Aomori use hotoku to speak but Hotoku
is hard to listening, so we will not see hotoku in anime. In Okinawa and Amami island are
Speak Ryukyuan. The Rukyuan can’t read or understand. This dialect will not use in school.
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