1st Edition

Old Japanese A Phonetic Reconstruction

By Marc Hideo Miyake Copyright 2003
312 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present.

Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions, 1 Introduction, 2 Early transcriptions of Japanese, 3 Previous research on phonograms, 4 Japanese phonology through time, 5 Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Sinoxenic, 6 Goals and methodology, 7 The reconstruction of Old Japanese consonants, 8 The reconstruction of Old Japanese vowels, 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Marc Hideo Miyake