Keisuke Honda
List of John Benjamins publications for which Keisuke Honda plays a role.
Articles
2009 Homographic kanji, their ambiguity and the effectiveness of okurigana as a device for disambiguation Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure, Lee, Sang-Oak (ed.), pp. 213–236 | Article
This paper has three goals. First, it addresses the problem of ambiguity induced by a large number of kanji graphemes that are used in the current Japanese writing system. Secondly, it summarises and examines claims that this ambiguity is reduced by an orthographic device called okurigana. Thirdly,… read more
2007 Kana digraphs and morea Written Language & Literacy 10:1, pp. 65–82 | Article
The Japanese kana script represents morae by assigning either graphs or digraphs. Kana digraphs are characteristic in that they each comprise two mora-bearing graphs and yet correspond to single morae. This paper develops a structural analysis of kana digraphs, in which the monomoraic value of… read more