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- Japanese There are many homophones in Japanese, due to the use of Sino-Japanese vocabulary, where borrowed words and morphemes from Chinese are widely used in Japanese, but many sound differences, such as the original words' tones, are lost. [citation needed]
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Mar 27, 2022 · Quick Lesson on Japanese Homophones. First, what are homophones? They’re words that sound the same. And in Japanese, where kanji have many readings, you end up with many words that sound the same… but with different, or just slightly different meanings. And that’s the tricky part!
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Dec 1, 2020 · In every language but Japanese, wordforms in the artificial lexica (shown by violin plots) have more homophones (Mean Number of Homophones) on average than wordforms in the real lexica (shown by orange dots).
- Sean Trott, Benjamin Bergen
- 2020
Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language. Unless otherwise noted, this article describes the standard variety of Japanese based on the Tokyo dialect.
Dec 1, 2020 · In the current work, we asked whether the prevalence of homophony across five languages––English, German, Dutch, French, and Japanese––could be plausibly attributed to a direct pressure to recycle optimal wordforms.
- Sean Trott, Benjamin Bergen
- 2020
4 days ago · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century.
- Masayoshi Shibatani
It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language.
We test this claim by constructing five series of artificial lexica matched for the phonotactics and distribution of word lengths found in five real languages (English, German, Dutch, French, and Japanese), and comparing both the quantity and concentration of homophony across the real and artificial lexica.
