2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Asymmetric mapping and the correlation between phonology and syntax
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22520507
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Sapporo University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 語順 / 語強勢 / 言語類型 / 相関 / 言語普遍性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on the data in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), it is argued that word-stress location correlates word order between head and complement.
The word orders in five categories, word (affix-stem), noun phrase (noun-genitive modifider), prepositional/postpositional phrase, (preposition/postposition-noun), verb phrase (verb-object) and subordinate clause, are investigated. As the category is larger, the ratio of languages with head-initial order is larger. Languages with word-initial stress tend to have head-final order while languages with word-final stress tend to have head-initial order. This tendency is statistically significant.
The correlation between word-stress location and head-complement order is explained in terms of cyclic movement of complement, which is constrained by the stress location of the head-final constituent.
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| Free Research Field |
英語学・言語学（音韻論・統語論）
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