JAPANESE: A LINGUISTIC INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: Dialects
Exercise 2.1
Answer true or false.
- Dialects in peripheral areas tend to retain historically older forms.
- Most Okinawan dialects have only three short vowels, /a, e, o/.
- The Nagoya dialect has fewer vowels than the Tokyo dialect.
- In many dialects in Tohoku, /i/ and /u/ are centralized as /ï/.
- In the Kagoshima dialect, pitch accent falls either on the final or the next to the final syllable.
- In the Kagoshima dialect, some syllables in the word-final position are realized as a glottal stop.
- The Tokyo dialect has more accentual patters than the Osaka dialect.
- In accentless dialects, no two words are differentiated solely by pitch accent.