Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- I Introduction to Japanese phonetics and phonology -- II Segmental phonetics and phonology -- 1 The phonetics of sokuon, or geminate obstruents -- 2 The phonology of sokuon, or geminate obstruents -- 3 The emergence of new consonant contrasts -- 4 Vowel devoicing -- 5 Diphthongs and vowel coalescence -- III Morphophonology -- 6 The phonological lexicon and mimetic phonology -- 7 Sino-Japanese phonology -- 8 Loanword phonology -- 9 Word formation and phonological processes -- 10 Rendaku -- IV Prosody -- 11 The phonology of Japanese accent -- 12 Mora and mora-timing -- 13 Intonation -- 14 Syntax-phonology interface -- V Broader perspectives -- 15 Historical phonology -- 16 Corpus-based phonetics -- 17 L1 phonology: phonological development -- 18 L2 phonetics and phonology -- Subject index