| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study is a revision of earlier work in which I developed a restrictive model of representation based on the relational mechanisms of dependency and licensing. The focus of this study is the syllable onset. In it I have argued for a refinement of the onset as a categorically unary component. Apparently 'complex' onsets are represented phonologically as elemental expressions, not as clusters or contours. At the level of phonological representation, elemental expressions need not specify the ordering of segments in a string; rather, the precedence relations between segments in the acoustic signal is determined by an interpretation system lying outside the grammar. This refinement of the syllable onset may possibly be extended to the syllable itself, thereby rendering the onset-nucleus split redundant. This would leave the nucleus as the only syllabic component, and the resulting picture would be one in which syllabic representation comprises a linear sequence of nuclei.
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