Japanese Phonetics Episode 28—LIVE (Updated with native recordings!)
Added 2017-10-01 17:18:27 +0000 UTCBibliography
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Good evening Patrons! The twenty-eighth episode of Japanese Phonetics, now updated with native recordings, is live! In this episode we talk about pitch-accent in question words and phrases, and cover some common phonetic mistakes that native English speakers make when dealing with questions in Japanese.
If you have any questions or concerns with regards to this lesson please don't hesitate to leave a comment below. Thank you very much for your continued support, and good luck with your Japanese studies!
Best from Beppu,
Dōgen
Comments
I feel this was kinda intuitive for me as a spanish and basque native speaker. In contrast with english I think that in my languages apart from the enfasis we also relly in this rising intonation at the end of the sentence. Anyway I won't be sure untill I record myself, I don't wanna think I'm doing this right when I'm not 笑 Thank you again for this awesome series, cheers!
Jokin Pedreño Alcolea
2019-05-15 08:27:32 +0000 UTCHi Grey, Thank you very much for the support! With regards to your questions, unfortunately I don't hvae a good answer at this moment. Numbers and counters are quite complex, and I find myself making mistakes and learning new things all the time. That said I think this is a subject that would benefit from some research—please allow me to cover this topic again in the future once we've got some of the fundamental pronunciation lessons out of the way!
Dogen
2017-10-21 07:43:17 +0000 UTCHey Dogen, First of all thank you for all of these amazing Japanese Phonetics videos. They have really helped a lot and I feel like my spoken Japanese as well as my listening have improved greatly. However I have two questions concerning the pitch accent patterns of numbers: 1. How can I determine the pitch accent pattern of more complex numbers, like 四十二 or 一千五百三 but also more simple numbers like 十五? Does the pitch accent for those behave like the pitch accent pattern for compound nouns? Or is there a special rule for those? 2. What is the pitch accent pattern for numbers combined with counters? Again, is it just the same as compound nouns or is there maybe a special rule? Thank you very much for your response in advance! And keep up the amazing work!
vzwGrey
2017-10-14 20:44:30 +0000 UTCHi Dominik. Very interesting question. I've never studied this, but I for a fact that there are many words that are clipped but are not 平板. I'll try to do a bit of research on this topic!
Dogen
2017-10-11 07:25:59 +0000 UTCHi Dogen, do you know how pitch accent behaves under clipping? I'm especially referring to (typically 4 mora) abbreviations of composite gairaigo, セクハラ、ポケモン、ファミコン、ラブホ、ドラクエ. Most of the words seem to become heiban, but are there exceptions?
Dominik
2017-10-10 21:27:29 +0000 UTCHi Kenny. I believe that this is good advice. There is a clear rise in intonation at the end of sentences which end with か when they are said with 'textbook' pronunciation, but most people don't use textbook pronunciation in normal speech. Your teacher is correct!
Dogen
2017-10-06 07:27:55 +0000 UTCFor questions that end in か, my teacher was explaining to me that there's not much of a rise in intonation at the end. The か clearly marks the sentence as a question, and rising intonation is only used for "naked" questions like "食べる？" or "食べない？" that you covered in this video. Is that correct?
Kenny Song
2017-10-05 05:49:28 +0000 UTCHi Enrico, Thanks for the question. Do you first mind giving me an example sentence with this word?
Dogen
2017-10-02 05:22:44 +0000 UTCHi Dogen! Sorry for the unrelated question, but I was wondering if you could shed some light on the pronunciation of やがる (as a 助動詞). I come across it quite often in my reading, and I never know what accent I should use, since I can't find the word in any accent dictionary I know of, and even the Daijirin, strangely enough, doesn't include a note on pronunciation. At the moment I'm "intuitively" pronouncing it so that the whole verb + やがる becomes 平板, but I have literally no idea whether this is appropriate or not. Thanks in advance! =)
Enrico Paolini
2017-10-02 01:42:19 +0000 UTC
