Sequential voicing in Japanese : papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project

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Sequential voicing in Japanese : papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project

edited by Timothy J. Vance, Mark Irwin

(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 176)

John Benjamins, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-271) and index

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Description

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku ('sequential voicing'), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include broad surveys of theoretical analyses and of psycholinguistic studies, meticulous assessments (some relying on a new database) of many of the factors that putatively inhibit or promote rendaku, an investigation of how learners of Japanese as foreign language deal with rendaku, in-depth examinations of rendaku in a divergent dialect of Japanese and in a Ryukyuan language, and a cross-linguistic exploration of rendaku-like compound markers in unrelated languages. Since rendaku is ubiquitous but recalcitrantly irregular, it provides a challenge for any general theory of morphophonology. This collection should serve both to restrain oversimplified accounts of rendaku and to inspire to further research.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of contributors
  • 2. Introduction (by Vance, Timothy J.)
  • 3. Generative treatments of rendaku and related issues (by Kawahara, Shigeto)
  • 4. Psycholinguistic studies of rendaku (by Kawahara, Shigeto)
  • 5. Rendaku and Identity Avoidance: Consonantal Identity and moraic Identity (by Kawahara, Shigeto)
  • 6. Rendaku awareness of Japanese learners in Taiwan: Students at Ming Chuan University (by Nakazawa, Nobuyuki)
  • 7. The Rendaku Database (by Irwin, Mark)
  • 8. Rosen's Rule (by Irwin, Mark)
  • 9. Rendaku and individual segments (by Vance, Timothy J.)
  • 10. Rendaku in Okinawan (by Serafim, Leon A.)
  • 11. Rendaku in Tohoku Japanese: The Kahoku-cho Survey (by Miyashita, Mizuki)
  • 12. Rendaku in cross-linguistic perspective (by Labrune, Laurence)
  • 13. A rendaku bibliography (by Irwin, Mark)
  • 14. References
  • 15. Index

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