Preface -- Contents -- Voicing in Japanese -- Rendaku: Its domain and linguistic conditions -- Sequential voicing, postnasal voicing, and Lyman's Law revisited -- Sei-daku: diachronic developments in the writing system -- The representation of laryngeal-source contrasts in Japanese -- Rendaku in inflected words -- Ranking paradoxes in consonant voicing in Japanese -- The implicational distribution of prenasalized stops in Japanese -- The correlation between accentuation and Rendaku in Japanese surnames: a morphological account -- A survey of Rendaku in loanwords -- Recognizing Japanese numeral-classifier combinations -- Corpus-based analysis of vowel devoicing in spontaneous Japanese: an interim report -- Syllable structure and its acoustic effects on vowels in devoicing environments -- The effect of speech rate on devoiced accented vowels in Osaka Japanese -- Where voicing and accent meet: their function, interaction, and opacity problems in phonological prominence -- Bibliography -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects.