1st Edition
Disfluencies We Live with in Japanese An Interdisciplinary Approach
Part 1: "Grammar" of Disfluencies
Chapter 1: Disfluency as a black light
Toshiyuki SADANOBU
Chapter 2: Annotating disfluencies in spontaneous Japanese: A corpus-based study
Takehiko MARUYAMA
Chapter 3: How can ‘incomplete’ sentences be well-formed utterances?: The conventionality of Japanese te-ending utterances
Shigeko OKAMOTO
Chapter 4: Co-occurring connectives: A corpus study of formulaicity as spontaneously arising means to reduce disfluency in Japanese written discourse
Andrej BEKEŠ, Bor HODOŠČEK, Kikuko NISHINA, Takeshi ABEKAWA, and Jinbo WANG
Part 2: "Usages" of Disfluencies
Chapter 5: Epistemicity-oriented disfluency in Japanese conversation: Disfluencies from interactional perspective
Tomoko ENDO
Chapter 6: Disfluent sound stretch as a resource in conversational storytelling
Satsuki ISEKI
Chapter 7: Naturally ‘disfluent’: The repeated Japanese adverb chotto ‘a little’ in conversation
Tsuyoshi ONO and Ryoko SUZUKI
Part 3: "Learning/teaching" of disfluencies
Chapter 8: Disfluency in utterances of young children
Kenji TOMOSADA
Chapter 9: Teaching disfluency in Japanese language education and its effects on communication: A study focused on getting-stuck utterances
Mizuki FUNAHASHI, Jun SUDO, Toshiyuki SADANOBU, and Takaaki SHOCHI
Chapter 10: Toward expressive and disfluent speech synthesis
Akiko MOKHTARI, Hiroaki HATANO, Jun ARAI, Nick CAMPBELL, and Toshiyuki SADANOBU
Part 4: Beyond existing fields of native/L2 learner/pathological Disfluencies
Chapter 11: Articulatory disfluency in healthy individuals experiencing speech clumsiness
Tatsuya KITAMURA, Yukiko NOTA, and Michiko HASHI
Chapter 12: Fluency and disfluency in language disorders
Naohisa FURUTA, Naomi SAKAI, and Yuki TAKAKURA
Chapter 13: Between fluency and disfluency: Some considerations on the “disfluency continuum”
Ryoko HAYASHI
Biography
Toshiyuki Sadanobu is Professor at Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan.
