Ellipsis and Wa-Marking in Japanese Conversation

by John Fry

Book Overview

This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome Japanese (CHJ) corpus, a collection of transcripts and digitized speech data for 120 telephone conversations between native speakers of Japanese. To make the CHJ data useful for linguistic research, John Fry annotates the original transcripts with a comprehensive set of acoustic, phonetic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138968587
• ISBN13: 9781138968585
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"