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Peer reviewedHattori, Noriko – Language Variation and Change, 1998
By examining data on historical changes in pitch accent plus data from present-day speech analysis, the article concludes that suprasegmental changes are in progress in both Japanese and English languages. Although English and Japanese use different phonetic resources to implement accentuation, vacillation in their respective suprasegmental…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, English
