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- Title
Prosodic size and rendaku immunity.
- Authors
Irwin, Mark
- Abstract
Research has shown there to be a strong relationship between the mora and prosody in Modern Japanese. Recently proposed, although not as yet independently evaluated, has been a prosodic size rule governing the well-known allomorphic phenomenon of rendaku, by which the initial consonants of non-initial elements in compounds may be voiced under certain conditions. It is claimed that this prosodic size rule flags a native Japanese noun as being rendaku immune, a condition for which no empirical verification has hitherto existed. In this paper the author will demonstrate that, although slight modifications are necessary, a prosodic size rule for flagging rendaku immunity is indeed a reality.
- Subjects
PROSODIC analysis (Linguistics); JAPANESE language; YAWA language; MORPHOPHONEMICS; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 3, p179
- ISSN
0925-8558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10831-009-9044-1