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1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
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Linguistic inquiry monograph ; 41 |
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Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 41.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Phonology of Voicing in Japanese: Alternations and Distributional Patterns -- 1.2. Overview of Theoretical Issues -- 1.3. Notation and Romanization -- Ch. 2 Obligatory Contour Principle Effects and Markedness Thresholds -- 2.1. Toward a New Understanding of Obligatory Contour Principle Effects -- 2.2. Local Constraint Conjunction -- 2.3. Japanese Voicing Restriction -- Ch. 3 Extended Obligatory Contour Principle Effects and Further Issues -- 3.1. Geminate Dissimilation -- 3.2. Deaccentuation as Tonal Simplification -- 3.3. Further Issues in Constraint Conjunction -- Ch. 4 Morphology and Phonology of Compound Voicing -- 4.1. Rendaku as a Linking Morpheme -- 4.2. Phonology of Compound Voicing -- 4.3. Further Issues -- Ch. 5 Morphological and Phonological Domains -- 5.1. Domain Issues -- 5.2. Domain of No-D[superscript 2] -- 5.3. Further Issues -- Ch. 6 Rules and Exceptions -- 6.1. Harmonic Completeness, Universal and Language-Specific -- 6.2. No-D[superscript 2][subscript m] and Its Activity in the Lexicon -- 6.3. No-NC and Its Activity in the Lexicon -- 6.4. Realize-Morpheme and the Distribution of Rendaku Voicing -- 6.5. Overall Structure of the Phonological Lexicon -- 6.6. Concluding Remarks -- Ch. 7 Voicing Faithfulness -- 7.1. Voicing Asymmetry -- 7.2. Faithfulness Approaches to the Voicing Asymmetry -- 7.3. Comparing Theories of Ident -- 7.4. Sequential Markedness and Segmental Markedness -- Ch. 8 Prosodic Anchoring -- 8.1. Rendaku Voicing in Complex Compounds -- 8.2. Internal Prosodic Structure of Compounds -- 8.3. Initial Anchoring and Initial Markedness -- 8.4. Further Issues -- App. A.1 Compounds Exhibiting Rendaku Voicing -- App. A.2 Compounds Exhibiting Lyman's Law Effects |
| Summary |
The sound pattern of Japanese, with its characteristic pitch accent system and rich segmental alternations, has played an important role in modern phonology, from structuralist phonemics to current constraint-based theories. In Japanese Morphophonemics, Junko Ito and Armin Mester provide the first book-length treatment of central issues in Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory. In Optimality Theory (OT), a generative grammar (including its phonological component) is built directly on the often conflicting demands of different grammatical principles and incorporates a specific kind of optimization as the means of resolving these conflicts. OT offers a new perspective from which to view many of the processes, alternations, and generalizations that are the traditional subject matter of phonology. Using the phonology of compounds as an analytical thread, Ito and Mester revisit central aspects of the sound pattern of Japanese and submit them to the rigor of OT. In pursuing both well-known and less-explored issues in this area, they show that an optimality-theoretic approach not only provides new solutions to old puzzles but also suggests interesting new questions for both descriptive work and theoretical research |
| Analysis |
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Japanese language -- Morphophonemics
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Japanese language -- Phonology
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Japanese.
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Japanese language -- Phonology
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Optimality theory.
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Morfofonemen.
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Japans.
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Morphophonologie.
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Théorie de l'optimalité (Linguistique)
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Phonologie.
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Phonème.
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Japonais (Langue)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mester, Armin
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| ISBN |
9780262276054 |
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0262276054 |
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1423729943 |
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9781423729945 |
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0262090368 |
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9780262090360 |
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0262590239 |
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9780262590235 |
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