[DeepL Translation - needs review] [about the product].
-Phonetics has the fascination of exploring the DNA of language.
Phonetics is the study of the sounds that people consciously use to communicate. Most of the books on Japanese phonetics published so far have been either research books focusing on theory or pronunciation instruction books for foreigners and others. This book fills the gap in Japanese phonetics, and is one of the few works that refers to both phonetics theory and practica...
Looks scarier than it really is
As someone who's already read « La phonologie du Japonais » by Laurence LABRUNE and has gone through Dōgen's course on pitch and phonetics, I was a bit disappointed to find no new information in this book. In terms of completeness and presentation of the information, I preferred « La phonologie du Japonais » but that book is written in French while this book has the benefit of being written in Japanese.
In fact, the entire first chapter serves as an introduction to all the phonetics jargon