@article{oai:repository.ninjal.ac.jp:00003054,
 author = {Maekawa, Kikuo},
 journal = {Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences},
 month = {Aug},
 note = {application/pdf, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Moraic nasal of Japanese, often symbolized as /N/, is a nasal segment that has the status of an independent mora. It is widely acknowledged that the place of articulation of /N/ is determined by the assimilation to the following consonants; for example, /aNma/, /aNta/, and /aNka/ become [amma], [anta], and [aŋka] respectively. There is, however, a lack of consensus concerning the realization of /N/ in the utterance-final position. Places of articulation of utterance-final /N/ hitherto stipulated in the literatures include velar [ŋ], uvular [N], and nasalized vowels. A real-time MRI movie database was analyzed to solve this problem. Data of three male speakers revealed consistent results. The location of closure for the final /N/ is highly predictable by the membership of the immediately preceding vowel. Closure locations predicted by a generalized linear mixed-effect model regression analysis showed high correlation (between .887-.986) with the observed locations.},
 pages = {1987--1991},
 title = {A real-time MRI study of Japanese moraic nasal in utterance-final position},
 year = {2019}
}