Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tokyo Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyoto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryukyuan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail.

Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics

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Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History was written by Elisabeth M Boer and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company

Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History has 138 pages

Yes it is part of Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series

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