Suski P.M. - The Phonetics of Japanese Language / Введение в звуки японского языка и способы их записи [1931(2011) г., PDF, ENG]

The Phonetics of Japanese Language
With reference To Japanese Script

Год выпуска: 1931(2011) г.
Автор: Suski P.M.
Категория: обзорный материал
Издатель: Routledge
Язык курса: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Кол-во страниц: 86
ISBN: 978-0-203-84180-8
Серия: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
Описание: The object of this little book is to give true characters of Japanese speech sounds of today in reference to European sounds. So far as I know, there have been no attempts ever made in this direction, that is, to record the exact manner in which Japanese sounds are produced. No standard set for sounds, it is to be presumed that the quality of sounds is from time to time drifting from one shade to another.

As the writer once wished to learn how Japanese people used to pronounce when carrying on a conversation 500, 1000, or 1500 years ago, he was utterly disappointed to find nothing giving records of sounds heard in those remote ages. Phonographs, which may have served these purposes fittingly are but an invention of a contemporary.

Japanese vowel elements are only 5 in number against—English 18, French 13 and German 8. Japanese consonants are 15, English 26, French 22, and German 23. Because of the lesser number of elements, it follows of necessity that the wider range in vowels and to some extent in consonants is heard and tolerated by Japanese ears.

This little volume attempts to give average sounds uttered by Japanese of the present age, in relation to the English sounds of today, as the latter language is rich in works of phonetics and furthermore is the most widely distributed language of the world. The English sounds will of course undergo changes in course of time, as it had in past, as any other living language. But still there will always be means to ascertain what are the sounds prevalent in 19th or 20th century, in case our descendants in 30th century, for instance, would try to study them.

Для своего года издания эти 80 страничек были информационным прорывом - простым языком о многом кратко и в одном месте. Сейчас тянет только на добротный школьный реферат. Однако для начинающего япониста может быть дать ретроспективный взгляд на сколько продвинулись европейские знания о японском языке. Хотя если ничего не знаешь, то прочесть будет интересно.