A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody : Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions

In this monograph __Katsura Aoyama__ presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author deftly describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. This is an important work for those interested in recent developments in theoretical and psycholinguistics. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-3 Background....Pages 5-18 Preliminary Survey: Frequencies of Long Vowels and Geminate Consonants in Finnish and Japanese....Pages 19-30 Discrimination Boundary Between the Single and Geminate Consonants....Pages 31-64 Discrimination Boundary Between the Single and Geminate Consonants: A Crosslinguistic Study....Pages 65-77 Acquisition of the Nasal Quantity Contrasts....Pages 79-109 Discussion: Overall Crosslinguistic Comparison....Pages 111-120 Summary and Conclusion....Pages 121-121 Back Matter....Pages 131-172