Reserve readings (for more background on Japanese and linguistics)
- Readings on reserve for this course in House Undergraduate Library (opens in new window)
JAPANESE RESOURCES
Japanese dictionaries and corpora
- Jim Breen's Online Japanese Dictionary Service
(US mirror site) -- online J<->E dictionary, kanji lookup utilities, and more
- Home site at Monash University, Australia
- Reading Tutor, another translation and kanji>kana site by Kawamura Yoshiko, Kitamura Tatsuya, and Hobara Rei.
- Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia) -- searchable electronic versions of classical Japanese literary works
Japanese web browsing and computing
- REQUIRED:
Setting up your web browser to display Japanese fonts
Click HERE to see if your browser is configured for Japanese.- General info on setting up a web browser to read Japanese by Christopher Bolton, Williams College (examples show Macintosh, but general principles apply in Windows as well)
- Info for Windows and Unix users by Jim Breen, Monash U.
- OPTIONAL:
Typing Japanese characters on your computer
- Japanese text input with Microsoft Windows by Brian Bell, Michigan State University
- Info for older and newer Mac systems by Christopher Bolton, Williams College
Resources for the Genki textbook
- Official Genki web site
- Resources for students using Genki, Sacramento State University
- Genki-related study resources, from NIHONGO eな
LINGUISTICS RESOURCES
Corpus resources for Japanese
General linguistics resources
- Specialties and subfields of linguistics, from the Wikipedia article on "linguistics"
- Index of linguistics articles from Wikipedia -- useful as a glossary
Phonetics and phonology
- Information about how to download and use phonetic-symbol fonts
- Phonetics review links
- IPA chart
- Links to audio examples of non-English consonants and vowels
Syntax
- Online textbook for introductory syntax: The Syntax of Natural Language, by Beatrice Santorini and Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania. See especially: