Japanese mora-timing: a review.
Japanese is often called a 'mora-timed' language, and contrasted with 'stress- timed' or 'syllable-timed' languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone several revisions, and a wide variety of experimental evidence both for and against mora-timing has been presented. This article reviews the hypotheses, the means of testing them, and the results of nearly 40 years of experimental work on mora-timing in Japanese, and suggests directions for future work in this area.
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Natasha.Warner@mpi.nl
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D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D010700:Phonetics; D013997:Time Factors; D014706:Verbal Learning