| Project/Area Number |
15520285
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAYAMA Tomoaki Kanazawa University, Faculty of letters, Associate professor, 文学部, 助教授 (20253247)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | Sino-Japanese / loanword / sound change / vowel coalescence / approximant / rendaku / 音韻史 / 母音連続 / 拗音化 / 字音 |
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| Research Abstract |
The main target of this research is to investigate into the relationship between the sound changes of Japanese and the nativization process of Chinese loanwords.
We deal primarily with the vowel coalescences in Vu sequences. We notice the differences between au, on and iu, eu. The latter sequences have changed into ju :, jo :, respectively.
The previous studies quite often say that the Japanese CjV sequences such as sya, gyu, tyo emerged as a result of borrowing the Chinese words that have strikingly complicated syllable structures compared to the simple CV syllables of Old Japanese. However the CjV sequences were brought even by the changes iu>ju : and eu>jo : which took place in native words. These phenomena suggest that CjV phonotactics established under the more complicated historical context than was assumed before. In this research, we focus on the mutual relation of the indigenous system and the nativization of loanwords.
Paying attention to the relationship between sound changes and the Sino-Japanese is equally significant when we detect factors of sound changes by interpreting historical written documents. The same viewpoint also plays an important role when we examine the history of rendaku in loanwords.
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