Canadian Raising: Evidence for or against Rule Ordering
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15H06796
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Fukuoka University |
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Principal Investigator |
Liu Sha 福岡大学, 言語教育研究センター, 講師 (60758746)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | rule ordering / Canadian Raising / variation / variable rule / chi-square test / rule ordeing / frequency / extra-linguistic factor / 音声学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Phonologists have been entangled in the argument over the tenability of rule ordering for several decades. Canadian Raising (CR) is perhaps a language phenomenon that is most frequently involved with rule ordering discussions. In the present study, I adopt the concept of variation and variable rules and propose to treat CR as variation and explain it in terms of variable rules. I assume that CR, in addition to phonological environments, is as well influenced by many other extra-linguistic factors, such as age, class, education background, style, etc. With such a theoretical background, the application of rules for CR is not either 0 or 1; namely, those rules are not categorical. The same term applies to rule ordering as well. I use chi-square test to examine the correlation between extra-linguistic factors, CR data and rule orderig relation. The test result appears to claim that CR is a piece of evidence for rule ordering and the validity of rule ordering is accordingly strengthened.
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