2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Theoretical Studies of Loanword Phonology
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24520419
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 最適性理論 / 複合動詞 / アクセント / 形態構造 / 不完全指定 / 借用語 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is known that Japanese simplex verbs can create their own derived nouns in a systematic way, where accentual property associated with each verb (accented or unaccented) is automatically transmitted to its derived noun. The present study focuses on why it is that compound verbs, although they appear and behave as being accented, can have only unaccented derived nouns. It is to be argued that that the apparent accent (characterized by pitch drop in Japanese) observed in compound verbs is not lexically specified or inherent but introduced by the morpho-phpnological constraint that requires that compound words (either nouns or verbs) should be accented. That is why derived nouns from compound verbs are systematically unaccented: there is no lexical accentin compound verbs. The process is similar to the process thatloanwords undergo: loanwords are treated as a sequence of sounds, which will have default accent when they are incorporated into Japanese.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学（音韻論）
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