Table of Contents

Part 1 Phonetics: phonetic inventory; place/manner of articulation and voicing; phonetic inventory of English - consonants stops, fricatives, affricates, approximants, nasals; phonetic inventory of Japanese - consonants, stops, fricatives, affricates, approximants, nasals; phonetic inventory of English - vowels, phonetic inventory of Japanese - vowels, suggested readings, exercises. Part 2 Phonology: phonological rules in Japanese - high vowel devoicing, nasal assimilation, alveolar alternations, alternation, digression on the phoneme status of verbal conjugation rules, rule ordering; sequential voicing - "Rendaku". Part 3 Mora vs syllable: speech errors - English, Japanese; language games - "Babibu" language; accentuation in Japanese - stress vs pitch, accentuation in Japanese, mora vs syllable, accentutation of long nominal compounds, accentuation of short nominal compounds, accentual variation among endings; mimetics; loan words; casual speech and fast speech; length requirements; suggested readings; exercises. Part 4 Morphology: parts of speech categories - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, postpositions, case particles, adjectival nouns, verbal nouns; morpheme types; word formation - affixation, compounding, reduplication, clipping, borrowing; head; suggested readings; exercises. Part 5 Syntax. Part 6 Reflexives. Part 7 Passives. Part 8 Causatives. Part 9 Relative clauses Part 10 Unaccusativity. Part 11 The light verb construction. Part 12 Further issues on phrase structure. (Part contents)