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Table of Contents (Vol.28)

Vol.28 No.1 (Published: April 30 2024)
Title Author page
Research Articles
The Three Pattern Prosodic System of the Kohama Dialect of Yaeyama Ryukyuan Kenan CELIK and Reiko ASO 1
Vol.28 No.2 (Published: August 31 2024)
Title Author page
Research Articles
Morphological (Non-)Effect in High Vowel Devoicing in Japanese Manami HIRAYAMA 17
Research Notes
Misuse Patterns and Introspection of Palatalized Mora by Japanese Learners:
Based on the Results of a Pronunciation Class for Chinese Speakers
 Luolin LIU 27
Feature Articles: “Regularity” and “Naturalness” in Sound Change
Preface Tatsuya HIRAKO and Toshio MATSUURA 36
Regularity and Naturalness in the Lenitions of the Labial Consonants of Japanese: Diachronic Issues on the Mimetic Words Tomoaki TAKAYAMA 38
On the Change Proto-Tocharian *-kS– > Tocharian A –pS– Adam Alvah CATT 52
Irregular and Sporadic Nasalization of Zhuang-mu and Zhang-mu in Southern Sinitic Languages Takeshi HAMADA 61
“Naturalness” and “Systemicity” of the Ryukyuan Raising of Non-Front Mid-Vowels Aleksandra JAROSZ 74
On the Exceptional Words to the Phenomenon of CVk’V- > k’V- in Yonaguni Ryukyuan Moriyo SHIMABUKURO 93
Evolution of Dorsal Fricatives in rGyalthangic Varieties of Khams Tibetan Hiroyuki SUZUKI 107
Vol.28 No.3 (Published: December 31 2024)
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Feature Articles: Tones in the World’s Languages
Preface Yasunori TAKAHASHI 121
Tlapanec (Mè’phàà) Tone Spreading and Tonal Markedness Hiroto UCHIHARA 123
Tone in Herero (Bantu, R31):
Focus on the Tonal Patterns and Downstep
 Nobuko YONEDA 133
The Tonal Change of Northern Vietnamese in the past 70 Years:
Based on the Tracking of the Acoustic Data
 Sho YAMAOKA 148
Reconstruction of the Proto-prosodic System of Kuroshima and Kohamajima Dialects in Yaeyama Ryukyuan Akiko MATSUMORI 161
The Variation, Change, and Opacity of Tone Neutralization in Cantonese:
Its ‘Unity in Variety’ and Implications for Tonal Representations
 Shin-ichi TANAKA, John ALDERETE and Queenie CHAN 175
A Preliminary Study of Interrogative Intonation in Shanghai Chinese Yasunori TAKAHASHI 190