Yusuke Hiratsuka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yusuke Hiratsuka plays a role.
Article
2017 Morphological relative frequency impedes the use of stylistic variants: Evidence from a corpus of vernacular Japanese Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:2, pp. 200–231 | Article
The sociolinguistic enterprise has demonstrated that speakers manipulate linguistic variants as they construct their speech style. Contrary to this expectation, this study introduces specific cases in which stylistic variation is highly constrained. We examine the verbal negative suffix in Kansai… read more