Information structure in spoken Japanese: Particles, word order, and intonation

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This examine explores data structure (IS) inside the framework of corpus linguistics and useful linguistics. As a case examine, it investigates IS phenomena in spoken Japanese: particles together with so-called subject particles, case particles, and zero particles; word order; and intonation. The examine discusses how these phenomena are associated to cognitive and communicative mechanisms of people.