| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,310,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The present research project attempts to shed light on phonological properties which serve as principles controlling the well-formedness of prosody-based morphology in Japanese. Because a large majority of Japanese prosodic morphology appears both in mimetic vocabulary and in loanwords, I have mainly examined the morpho-phonological processes observed in these two lexical categories. Based on some theoretical notions developed in the framework of generative phonology, I discovered quite a few interesting phonological mechanisms underlying various types of phenomena. In particular, I did an in-depth investigation of the mechanism of constraint interaction, which exerts a profound effect on grammatical evaluation of output forms. As the main result of the inquiry, I found a notable tendency that unmarked structure is definitely favored as an optimal output pattern of various kinds of prosody-based morphology in Japanese. This is in full accordance with recent theoretical results developed in Optimality Theory.
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