Ogasawara Research

• The Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands Language Site



Research papers by Daniel Long

• "The Perception of "Standard" as the Speech Variety of a Specific Region: Computer-Produced Composite Maps of Perceptual Dialect Regions" (English, with full color maps).
• "What Is "Japanese" about Japanese Dialects?" (Japanese)
• "Foreigners and Rumors" (Japanese)
• "Japanese Dialects as Seen from Other Countries: Things which Foreign Scholars Want to Know about Japanese Dialectology" (Japanese)
• "Language Problems Non-native Speakers Encounter in Emergency Broadcasts: A Study in Applied Sociolinguistics" (Japanese)



Data

• Online Perceptual Dialect Atlas. View over 150 color maps of different perceptual speech regions.
• Timeline of Japanese Language Education in the Japanese Colonies 1895-1945 By Midori Iwaki. View Taiwan, Korea, or Micronesia.
• Japanese Sociolinguistics in English Bibliography (with over 1200 listings)

The database centers on English works on Japanese sociolinguistics, with several hundred titles on general Japanese linguistics, and Japanese language education. If you have additions or corrections, please send them to me.

Linguistic Research

• Variation Theory Forum of Japan
• Related links

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