A digital demodulator that eliminates the need for a device for generating absolute phase. In a digital demodulator for a digital broadcast receiver that receives digital time-division multiplexed signals of different types of modulation, the demodulated baseband signal is selectively inverted by an inverter (7) according to an inversion commas signal "0" or "1" that is output from an inversion decision circuit (6) depending on a BPSK signal of a known pattern. A phase error detector (8) for carrier reproduction determines the phase error voltage based on the phase difference between the absolute phase and the phase of the signal point of the demodulated signal output from the inverter (7). The phase error voltage is passed through a carrier filter (9), including a low-pass filter, to control the carrier frequency so that carrier reproduction can be carried out with the phase at the signal point being coincident with the point of phase convergence.
