| Budget Amount *help |
¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Phonologists have been entangled in the argument over the tenability of rule ordering for several decades. Canadian Raising (CR) is perhaps a language phenomenon that is most frequently involved with rule ordering discussions. In the present study, I adopt the concept of variation and variable rules and propose to treat CR as variation and explain it in terms of variable rules. I assume that CR, in addition to phonological environments, is as well influenced by many other extra-linguistic factors, such as age, class, education background, style, etc. With such a theoretical background, the application of rules for CR is not either 0 or 1; namely, those rules are not categorical. The same term applies to rule ordering as well. I use chi-square test to examine the correlation between extra-linguistic factors, CR data and rule orderig relation. The test result appears to claim that CR is a piece of evidence for rule ordering and the validity of rule ordering is accordingly strengthened.
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