Timothy J. Vance

An Introduction to Japanese Phonology

This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the modern Japanese sound system. It also serves as a useful reference on the structure of...

Irregular Phonological Marking of Japanese Compounds

Benjamin Smith Lyman’s Pioneering Research on Rendaku

Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835–1920) was an American geologist and mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign expert in the 187...

Irregular Phonological Marking of Japanese Compounds

Benjamin Smith Lyman's Pioneering Research on Rendaku

Benjamin Smith Lyman, an American geologist and mining engineer, worked in Japan in the 1870s and pursued research on the Japanese language as a sidel...

Building Word Power in Japanese

Using Kanji Prefixes and Suffixes

Presents an easy and quick way for students of Japanese to increase their vocabulary. The text introduces the main prefixes and suffixes, to multiply ...