Nobutaka Takara

Biographic Data

ID9287993
NAMENobutaka Takara
GIVEN NAMESNobutaka
FAMILY NAMETakara
SIGNATURETAKARA N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX0

  • The weight of head nouns in noun-modifying constructions in conversational Japanese

    Nobutaka TakaraARTICLEStudies in Language2012

    This paper investigates the weight of head nouns in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) in conversational Japanese. In my data about 70% of head nouns are ‘light’, 20% of the nouns are ‘heavy’, and the remaining is in a ‘gray zone.’ As a close observation of NMCs reveals the issues of two-way light-heavy classification for heads, I establish six parameters according to which I can model the head nouns on a scale from ‘heaviest’ to ‘lightest.’ I a…

  • Syllable structure and extrametricality

    Matthew Gordon, Carmen Jany et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2010

    This paper proposes a functional basis for final consonant extrametricality, the asymmetric status of CVC syllables as stress-attracting in non-final position of a word but stress-rejecting in final position. A typological study of phonemic vowel length pattern in 10 languages with this final vs. non-final stress asymmetry and 30 languages in which CVC attracts stress in final position indicates a robust asymmetry between languages differing in t…