In Japanese, every content word has its own mora-based H/L pitch pattern when it is uttered in isolation, called accent type. When reading out a written sentence, however, this lexical H/L pattern is often changed according to the context, known as word accent sandhi. In our previous work, an accent sandhi predictor was developed using CRF [1], and in this paper, the predictor is improved throu...

Abstract Research suggests that English-derived loanwords in Japanese can affect learners' acquisition and receptive knowledge of their English words origin (‘basewords'). This study adopts a corpus-based approach to expand on this research by exploring the effects productive knowledge. It primarily uses corpus written produced learners English, native speakers, samples from compare quantitativ...

The modifications that foreign loanwords undergo when adapted into Japanese have been the subject of much study in linguistics. The scholarly interest of the topic can be attributed to the fact that Japanese loanwords undergo a complex series of phonological adaptations, something which has been puzzling scholars for decades. While previous studies of Japanese loanword accommodation have focuse...

Japanese loanword adaptations show an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in words from French and English, respectively: while word-final [n] is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is adapted as a geminate nasal followed by an epenthetic vowel in loanwords from French. We provide evidence that this asymmetry originates in the way Japanese speakers perceiv...

The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corr...

This study addresses our understanding of English loanwords in the modern Japanese language. It aims to investigate two types and made-in-Japan among Malaysian speakers native Japanese. The proposed utilized a quantitative approach determine groups speakers; 60 Japan Malaysia. data collection this research was completed using questionnaires. questionnaires consist 14 sentences with these select...