Mark Irwin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark Irwin plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Japanese linguistics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics

Loanwords in Japanese

Mark Irwin

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Irwin, Mark 2016 The Rendaku DatabaseSequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project, Vance, Timothy J. and Mark Irwin (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article
Of those studies which have examined rendaku from a statistical angle, most have been small-scale, employing restricted corpora or micro-databases and often focused on specific conditions. The lack of a large-scale corpus was the impetus behind the creation of the Rendaku Database, available online… read more
Irwin, Mark 2016 Rosen’s RuleSequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project, Vance, Timothy J. and Mark Irwin (eds.), pp. 107–118 | Article
Rosen’s Rule states that rendaku is predictable when at least one element in a compound is three moras or longer. The rule is of importance for two reasons. Firstly, it adds further to the evidence affirming the role of the foot in Japanese. Secondly, the application of Rosen’s Rule allows us to flag… read more
Irwin, Mark 2016 A rendaku bibliographySequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project, Vance, Timothy J. and Mark Irwin (eds.), pp. 235–250 | Article
Miyashita, Mizuki, Mark Irwin, Ian Wilson and Timothy J. Vance 2016 Rendaku in Tōhoku Japanese: The Kahoku-chō SurveySequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project, Vance, Timothy J. and Mark Irwin (eds.), pp. 173–194 | Article
Rendaku in many Tōhoku dialects is manifested in the form of prenasalized voicing, and this paper provides a case study of rendaku in the dialect of Kahoku-chō, Yamagata Prefecture. After describing prenasalized voicing and its relationship to rendaku, the paper reports the results of a study… read more
Nakazawa, Nobuyuki, Timothy J. Vance, Mark Irwin and Paul Lyddon 2016 Rendaku awareness of Japanese learners in Taiwan: Students at Ming Chuan UniversitySequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project, Vance, Timothy J. and Mark Irwin (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Article
As rendaku is not entirely predictable, it is particularly difficult for second language learners of Japanese to master. To date, however, little research has been done to examine this problem. This study investigates the potential pedagogical value of Lyman’s Law, the observation that the second… read more