Screen LibraryIssues in Japanese phonology and morphology /
The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on...
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| Published: |
De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©2001 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in generative grammar [sgg] ;
volume 51 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on segmental as well as suprasegmental issues, including voicing and tone, approaching these issues from a variety of perspectives, including Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. In the morphology chapters, attention is given to truncation patterns and the possibilities for compound formation. |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
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1 online resource (viii, 403 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110885989 |
| Index Number: | PL528 |
| CLC: | H361 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Heaviness in Interfaces / The Accent of Tsuruoka Japanese Reconsidered / How should we Represent g in toge in Japanese Underlyingly? / Domain-Relative Faithfulness and the OCP: Rendaku Revisited / Epenthetic Vowels and Accent in Japanese: Facts and Paradoxes / Prosodie Structure and Sandhi Phenomena in the Saru Dialect of Ainu / The Emergence of the Unaccented : Possible Patterns and Variations in Japanese Compound Accentuation / An Element-Based Analysis of Affrication in Japanese / The Accent System of the Kyoto Dialect of Japanese: A Study on Phrasal Patterns and Paradigms / Word Plus: The Intersection of Words and Phrases / Further Evidence in Support of the Righthand Head Rule in Japanese / Against Headedness in Compound Truncation: English Compounds in Japanese / Two Different Kinds of Rhythm: Japanese and English / sC Clusters as Complex Segments: Evidence from the Contrastive Phonology of English and Japanese / Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- List of Contributors. |