Vowel Devoicing: a very interesting case in phonology and phonetics, impinging particularly upon their interface. If time permits, this site will grow to contain a collection of references and links pertaining to vowel devoicing in particular, and those pertaining to vowels acting like consonants in general.

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1998 Univ. of Wash. Ph. D. Linguistics dissertation On High Vowel Devoicing in Standard Modern Japanese

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• html version

• Preliminary pages (124k)
• Ch1 Introduction (194k)
• Ch2 HVD (268k)
• Ch3 Pitch accent (165k)
• Ch4 Experimental design (166k)
• Ch5 Token durations (309k)
• Ch6 Devoicing frequency (615k)
• Ch7 Voicing durations (269k)
• Ch8 Conclusion (101k)
• Bibliography (119k)
• Appendix (135k)
• Vita (95k; as published in the dissertation--here is the updated version)

vowel devoicing bibliography (pending)