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Nov 10	revised	Does an international OR standardized phonetic alphabet/notation system exist to depict all the Hiragana/Katakana sounds? added 93 characters in body
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Nov 10	comment	Does an international OR standardized phonetic alphabet/notation system exist to depict all the Hiragana/Katakana sounds? I wrote a sloppy machine readable mapping a little while back, you can look at it to just get a sense of the size and complexity of the task forum.gaijinpot.com/…
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Nov 10	answered	Does an international OR standardized phonetic alphabet/notation system exist to depict all the Hiragana/Katakana sounds?
Sep 21	awarded	Custodian
Sep 21	comment	Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels This is really bugging me. Speech recognition textbooks usually assume the signal to symbol conversion has already been done, and so doesn't address the spectral computation to match signal to (candidate) phoneme. I recently found a textbook for analysing the raw speech spectra, but it will be a long while until I can come back here myself and give an answer with actual numerical evidence (you did after all ask for a phonetic description). I encourage anyone to provide a more satisfactory answer than mine! This is probably too specialized to be a bounty question.
Sep 21	comment	Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels @AmandaS Your're right, they're not dropped in the sense that at the lexical level they are always most definitely present. When devoicing occurs either the voiceless segment will be the same duration as if it were voiced, or there will be prosodic compensation from a neighbouring segment. In other words, even if it is phonetically absent its prosodic weight still must realize phonologically and phonetically. So it's the inviolability of this prosodic weight that native speakers intuit as the incapacity to be "dropped".
Sep 21	comment	Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels I've seen transcriptions for total deletion too, particularly [des] where [s] then becomes prosodically lengthened to fill the intended timing tier. Though です is such a frequent word I wouldn't be surprised if it had an exceptional pronunciation.
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Sep 21	comment	Is there a logic behind the different endings when counting things in Japanese The believe that one language is more concise than another is an absolute myth. Every language is equally expressive, the fact that some indigenous language doesn't have words for "millisecond" or "cell-phone" is a cultural particular, not a deficit of language as matter of some sort of innate difference in linguistic structure. If you don't believe me, just think about it and try to formulate it more technically or at least make a verifiable claim. I think you'll find it a vacuous assertion.
Sep 21	comment	Is there a logic behind the different endings when counting things in Japanese The linguistic term is "classifier" and your what you are looking for is the typology of Japanese classifiers. You could find a satisfactory answer in any textbook on the subject, like amazon.ca/Classifiers-Typology-Noun-Categorization-Devices/dp/… . I haven't studied the subject myself, so I can't give an answer.
Sep 21	reviewed	Leave Open Is there a logic behind the different endings when counting things in Japanese
Sep 21	reviewed	Leave Open Which writing system (hiragana, katakana, or kanji) should we use when writing out someone's name?
Sep 13	awarded	Necromancer
Sep 9	revised	“Opposite” of `和製英語` Sentimental embellishments expressed irrelevant and singular opinion and obfuscated the intent of the question
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Sep 9	comment	“Opposite” of `和製英語` There is a common term for this. It's called the phonological lexicon. The only thing that's going on here is the employment of different morpheme classes by standard morphological processes. This also results in 和製漢語, 和製洋語, and 混種語. Thinking in terms of opposites of ad hoc notions like アメリカ製日本語, although good ideas, its almost deliberately obscuring the simplicity of what's going on.