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Peer reviewedMatsumoto, Kazuko – Language Sciences, 2000
Examines informal Japanese conversations between 16 pairs of same-sex friends to explore the preferred information structure of the intonation unit and the preferred clause structure in terms of the number and type of arguments contained per clause. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Databases, Intonation, Japanese
Direct linkMoore, Harumi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
How would translators approach a process in which they have to make decisions on mapping the grammatically enforced regular number mechanism of a language such as English onto a system like Japanese, where there is no regular coding of number in a noun phrase? Utilizing the concepts of motivation for representation of number, and of "formal-shift"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Motivation
