Ogasawara Research

• The Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands Language Site



Research papers by Daniel Long

• "ThePerception of "Standard" as the Speech Variety of a Specific Region:Computer-Produced Composite Maps of Perceptual Dialect Regions" (English,with full color maps).
• "WhatIs "Japanese" about Japanese Dialects?" (Japanese)
• "Foreignersand Rumors" (Japanese)
• "JapaneseDialects as Seen from Other Countries: Things which Foreign Scholars Wantto Know about Japanese Dialectology" (Japanese)
• "LanguageProblems Non-native Speakers Encounter in Emergency Broadcasts: A Studyin Applied Sociolinguistics" (Japanese)



Data

• OnlinePerceptual Dialect Atlas. View over 150 color maps of differentperceptual speech regions.
• Timeline of Japanese Language Education in the Japanese Colonies 1895-1945By Midori Iwaki. View Taiwan,Korea,or Micronesia.
• JapaneseSociolinguistics 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 Japaneselanguage education. If you have additions or corrections, please send themto me.

Linguistic Research

• VariationTheory Forum of Japan
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