Youngberg, Connor (2020) Syllable Weakening in Kagoshima Japanese An Element-Based Analysis. In: European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics. Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies, Lingui (13). Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice, pp. 31-45. ISBN 978-88-6969-428-8. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/002
Youngberg, Connor (2020) Syllable Weakening in Kagoshima Japanese An Element-Based Analysis. In: European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics. Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies, Lingui (13). Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice, pp. 31-45. ISBN 978-88-6969-428-8. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/002
Youngberg, Connor (2020) Syllable Weakening in Kagoshima Japanese An Element-Based Analysis. In: European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics. Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies, Lingui (13). Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice, pp. 31-45. ISBN 978-88-6969-428-8. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/002
Abstract
This paper examines syllable weakening or nisshōka (入声化) in Kagoshima Japanese (KJ), where high vowel apocope feeds lenition, leading to correspondences such as Tōkyō Japanese (TJ) [kaki] ‘persimmon’ and Kagoshima [kaʔ]. The traditional pattern noted in the literature is quite clear. Apocope elides stem-final /u/ or /i/. The preceding onset is lenited in one of four ways: 1) stops and affricates are debuccalised (/kaki/ > [kaʔ] ‘persimmon’); 2) fricatives undergo voicing neutralisation (TJ [kazu] > KJ [kas] ‘number’); 3) nasals undergo place loss (TJ [kami] > KJ [kaɴ] ‘paper’); 4) rhotics undergo gliding (TJ [maru] > [maj] ‘round’). This paper presents an initial analysis of the data within Element Theory representational framework.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Japanese; Linguistics; Dialectology; Phonology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2021 17:37 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 20:55 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31340 |
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