2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies on the phonological properties governing grammatical processes of Japanese prosodic morphology
| Project/Area Number |
19720091
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
NASU Akio University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (00294174)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 音韻論 / オノマトペ / 韻律語形成 / 有標性 / 最適性理論 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present research project attempts to shed light on phonological properties which serve as principles controlling the well-formedness of prosody-based morphology in Japanese. Because a large majority of Japanese prosodic morphology appears both in mimetic vocabulary and in loanwords, I have mainly examined the morpho-phonological processes observed in these two lexical categories. Based on some theoretical notions developed in the framework of generative phonology, I discovered quite a few interesting phonological mechanisms underlying various types of phenomena. In particular, I did an in-depth investigation of the mechanism of constraint interaction, which exerts a profound effect on grammatical evaluation of output forms. As the main result of the inquiry, I found a notable tendency that unmarked structure is definitely favored as an optimal output pattern of various kinds of prosody-based morphology in Japanese. This is in full accordance with recent theoretical results developed in Optimality Theory.
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