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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Cross-Linguistic Analysis on the Phonological Structure of Compounds

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09610480
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

KUBOZONO Haruo  Kobe University, Dept. of Linguistics, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80153328)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Keywordscompound noun / accent / Japanese / phonological structure / dialects / syllable / phonetic feature / vowel epenthesis
Research Abstract

The aim of this research was to make a cross-linguistic analysis of compound nouns and to illuminate the universal and language-specific aspects of Japanese and English compounds with respect to their phonological structures. This research has revealed the following four points.
1)The syllable is an indispensable unit of phonological description in Japanese. Introducing this unit into the description of Japanese allows us to clarify some crucial similarities that underly the phonological structures of Japanese and English compounds.
2)It is possible to predict to a large extent which element of compound nouns becomes phonologically prominent. The morphological distinction between the head and the modifier plays a crucial role in this generalization.
3)An analysis based on phonetic features enables us to generalize a number of vowel coalescence processes in Japanese, including those that affect reduplicative compounds.
4)Compound accent rules and other accent rules interact in some peculiar ways with segmental changes such as vowel epenthesis and consonant elision. In many languages including Tokyo Japanese and Kagoshima Japanese, synchronic accent rules apply to the input, not the output, of segmental changes that happened in the course of the history.

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    (17 results)

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All Publications (17 results)

  • [Publications] KUBOZONO, Haruo: "Epenthetic Vowels and accent in Japanese"Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology. (未定). (2000)

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  • [Publications] 窪薗晴夫: "金太郎と桃太郎のアクセント構造"神戸言語学論 叢. 1. 35-49 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 窪薗晴夫: "アクセント研究のトピックス"日本語学. 17-3. 4-13 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 白勢彩子: "Nonfinality in language acquisition : A case study"Phonological Studies. 1. 107-114 (1998)

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  • [Publications] KUBOZONO, Haruo: "Lexical Markedness and Variation"WCCFL. 15. 237-287 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 窪薗 晴夫: "音韻構造から見た語と句の境界"文法と音声. 1. 147-166 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 窪薗 晴夫: "日本語の音声"岩波書店. 256 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H.: "Epenthetic vowels and accent in Japanese : Facts and paradoxes"To appear in J. van de Weijer and T. Nishihara (eds.) Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology. Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter.. (forthcoming).

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H.: "Topics accentuation of Kintaroo and Momotaroo"Kobe Papers in Linguistics. 1. 35-49 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H.: "Topics of accent research"Nihongogaku. 17-3. 4-13 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Shirose,A. and H.Kubozono: "Nonfinality in language acquisition : A case study"Phonological Studies. No.1. 107-114 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H.: "Lexical markedness and variation : A nonderivational account of Japanese compound accent"Proceedings of The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 15. 273-287 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H., J.Ito and A.Mester: "Nonfinality in Japanese phonology"Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Linguistics. Elsevier.(CD-ROM). (1997)

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  • [Publications] Tanaka,S. and H.Kubozono: "Compound accent in Japanese : Monshirocho and Seakagokegumo"Conference Handbook, The Phonetic Society of Japan. 29-34 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Shirose,A., H.Kubozono, and S.Kiritani: "The acquisition of compound accent in Japanese"Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Linguistics. Elsevier.. (CD-ROM). (1997)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H.: "The Sound System of Japanese"Tokyo : Iwanami. (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kubozono,H., J.Ito and A.Mester: "The phonological boundary between the word and the phrase. Speech and Grammar"Tokyo : Kurosio Publishers. 147-166 (1997)

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