Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation

Focusing on the linguistic mechanisms of ellipsis and wa-marking, this book utilizes the CallHome Japanese corpus, which features transcripts from 120 telephone conversations among native Japanese speakers. John Fry enhances the original data by annotating it with detailed acoustic, phonetic, syntactic, and semantic tags, making it a valuable resource for linguistic research. The analysis aims to provide insights into the nuances of colloquial Japanese speech through this meticulously curated data set.