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Part 1 Phonetics: phonetic inventory; place/manner of articulation andvoicing; phonetic inventory of English - consonants stops, fricatives,affricates, approximants, nasals; phonetic inventory of Japanese -consonants, stops, fricatives, affricates, approximants, nasals;phonetic inventory of English - vowels, phonetic inventory of Japanese- vowels, suggested readings, exercises. Part 2 Phonology: phonologicalrules in Japanese - high vowel devoicing, nasal assimilation, alveolaralternations, alternation, digression on the phoneme status of verbalconjugation rules, rule ordering; sequential voicing - "Rendaku". Part3 Mora vs syllable: speech errors - English, Japanese; language games -"Babibu" language; accentuation in Japanese - stress vs pitch,accentuation in Japanese, mora vs syllable, accentutation of longnominal compounds, accentuation of short nominal compounds, accentualvariation among endings; mimetics; loan words; casual speech and fastspeech; length requirements; suggested readings; exercises. Part 4Morphology: parts of speech categories - nouns, verbs, adjectives,adverbs, postpositions, case particles, adjectival nouns, verbal nouns;morpheme types; word formation - affixation, compounding,reduplication, clipping, borrowing; head; suggested readings;exercises. Part 5 Syntax. Part 6 Reflexives. Part 7 Passives. Part 8Causatives. Part 9 Relative clauses Part 10 Unaccusativity. Part 11 Thelight verb construction. Part 12 Further issues on phrase structure.(Part contents)