Sequential Voicing in Japanese

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Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project

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Intro
Sequential Voicing in Japanese
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
In memory of Hideki Zamma (1969-2016)
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
1.1 The NINJAL Rendaku Project
1.2 The Rendaku alternations
1.3 Orthography
1.4 Rendaku research and the papers in this book
1.5 References
Acknowledgements
Generative treatments of rendaku and related issues
2.1 General introduction
2.2 Theoretical treatments of rendaku
2.2.1 SPE-style rules
2.2.2 Autosegmental analysis
2.2.3 A special case of intervocalic voicing
2.2.4 Compound marking via Realize-Morpheme
2.2.5 Rendaku as (lack of) devoicing
2.2.6 Summary
2.3 Theoretical expressions of Lyman's Law
2.3.1 Lyman's Law as an autosegmental feature deletion rule
2.3.2 OCP(voice)
2.3.3 Local conjunction
2.3.4 Interlude: A fully OT analysis
2.3.5 Why sonorant voicing is ignored by Lyman's Law
2.3.5.1 Underspeci cation
2.3.5.2 Privative feature theory
2.3.5.3 Obstruent voicing and sonorant voicing as different features
2.3.5.4 Direct encoding in constraint formulation
2.3.5.5 Lyman's Law as orthotactics
2.3.5.6 Summary
2.3.6 Lyman's Law and velar nasalization: Derivational opacity
2.4 The Right-Branch Condition
2.4.1 C-command requirement
2.4.2 A cyclic analysis
2.4.3 Positional faithfulness at a PrWd edge
2.5 Other issues and general discussion
2.5.1 Other issues
2.5.1.1 Rendaku and lexical strati cation in Japanese
2.5.1.2 Lyman's Law, conspiracy, and the duplication problem
2.5.1.3 Lyman's Law and the dual nature of phonological constraints
2.5.2 Remaining questions about theories of rendaku
2.5.3 Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Psycholinguistic studies of rendaku
3.1 Outline
3.2 Grammatical versus Lexical
3.3 Experiments on speci c aspects of rendaku
3.3.1 Lexical strati cation and rendaku
3.3.2 Effects of E1
3.3.3 The Right-Branch Condition
3.3.4 Semantic relationships between E1 and E2
3.3.5 Segmental effects
3.4 Experiments on Lyman's Law
3.5 Some remaining issues
Acknowledgements
Rendaku and Identity Avoidance
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Synopsis
4.1.2 Background and the current study
4.2 Method
4.2.1 Task
4.2.2 Stimuli
4.2.3 Procedure and participants
4.2.4 Statistics
4.3 Results
4.4 Discussion
4.4.1 The effect of moraic Identity Avoidance
4.4.2 The effect of Consonantal Identity Avoidance
4.4.3 Coexistence and granularity of Identity Avoidance Effects
4.5 Summary
Acknowledgements
Rendaku awareness of Japanese learners in Taiwan
5.1 Rendaku and JFL learners
5.2 Survey
5.2.1 Respondents
5.2.2 Questionnaire
5.3 Results
5.3.1 Responses to test-item compounds
5.3.2 Questions about pronunciation and Kanji
5.3.3 Questions about Rendaku
5.3.4 Questions about Lyman's Law
5.4 Discussion
5.5 Pedagogical suggestions
Acknowledgements
The Rendaku Database
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 Previous research
6.1.2 The Rendaku Database
6.1.3 Scope of this paper
6.2 General statistical analysis
6.2.1 By non-final element (E1)
6.2.2 By final element (E2)
6.2.3 By entire compound (E1+E2)
6.3 Rendaku statistical analysis
6.3.1 Preliminaries
6.3.2 By non-final element(s) (E1)
6.3.3 By final element (E2)
6.3.4 Personality
6.4 Summary of results and future research
Rosen's Rule
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Interpretations and de nitions
7.3 Statistical analysis
7.4 Implications
Rendaku and individual segments
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Susceptibility of target segments
8.3 In uence of nearby segments
8.3.1 Immediately preceding moraic nasal
8.3.2 Onset r in immediately preceding mora
8.3.3 Other consonants in immediately preceding mora
8.3.4 Medial m and immunity
8.4 Phenomena that preempt rendaku
8.4.1 Moraic obstruent insertion
8.4.2 Alternation of h with w
8.5 Summary and conclusion
Acknowledgements
Rendaku in Okinawan
9.1 Outline
9.2 Background
9.2.1 Some differences between Shuri and Japanese
9.2.2 Consonants
9.2.3 Vowels
9.2.4 Syllable structure
9.2.5 Morphophonological phenomena
9.2.5.1 Progressive palatalization
9.2.5.2 Rendaku
9.2.5.3 Lyman's Law
9.2.5.4 Examples in Shuri
9.3 Issues
9.3.1 Claimed phonologically-based exceptions to rendaku
9.3.1.1 Sh/si/
9.3.1.2 Sh/ /
9.3.2 "De-Rendaku": *pre-OOk/+?VC./ & Sh/+nC./
9.3.2.1 Sh/qcu/ ~ Sh/+ncu/ '(+)person'
9.3.2.2 Sh/qkwa/ ~ Sh/+ngwa/ 'child'
9.3.2.3 Other examples
9.3.3 R2 due to morph-internal voiced-obstruent-mora change to Sh/n/
9.3.3.1 R2: *pre-OOk/padus/ & . Sh/+hans-/
9.3.3.2 R2: *pre-OOk/pazik/ & . Sh/+bank-/ ~ Sh/+banc-/
9.3.3.3 R2(?): *pre-OOk/tume+sirabe/ & . & Sh/cindami/
9.3.3.4 The unpredictability of R2
9.3.4 Rendaku and its relation to word-initial voiced obstruents
9.3.4.1 Rendaku-compound E2s "decoupled" from their E1s?
9.3.4.2 Exceptional initial voiced obstruents: "Natural-world" nouns
9.3.4.3 Nouns with initial voiced obstruents
9.3.4.4 Similar semantic cases in Japanese
9.3.4.5 Similar semantic cases in Korean
9.3.4.6 Sh/gansina(h)/
9.3.4.7 Two "Irregular" Cases: Sh/guzira/ 'whale' and Sh/gazimaru/ 'banyan'
9.4 Toponyms
9.4.1 Toponyms beginning with Sh/b/
9.4.2 Toponyms beginning with Sh/d/
9.4.3 Toponyms beginning with Sh/g/
9.4.4 Topynyms Beginning with Sh/z z/
9.5 In closing: Did rendaku exist in Proto-Japonic?
Acknowledgements
Rendaku in Tohoku Japanese
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Yamagata Dialects and Kahoku Dialect
10.3 Kahoku Phonology and Morphophonology
10.3.1 Consonants
10.3.2 Vowels
10.4 Rendaku and Prenasalization
10.4.1 Prenasalization
10.4.2 Rendaku and Prenasalization in the Kahoku Dialect
10.5 Kahoku Rendaku Survey
10.5.1 Survey Method
10.5.2 Rendaku Prenasalization Data
10.5.3 Variability in the Realization of Prenasalization
10.5.4 Other Possible In uences on Prenasalization Rate
10.5.4.1 Sociolinguistic Factors
10.5.4.2 Nativeness of Vocabulary
10.5.4.3 Dialect Contact and Dialect Leveling
10.6 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Rendaku in cross-linguistic perspective
11.1 Introduction
11.2 De ning rendaku
11.2.1 Rendaku as a linking element
11.2.2 Rendaku as a featural af x
11.2.3 Rendaku as a featural linking element
11.3 Korean
11.4 Basque
11.5 Excursus: On some intriguing properties of voiced obstruents in Japanese, tense consonants in Korean, and voiceless and affricate consonants in Basque
11.6 Other Languages with FLEs
11.6.1 Slave
11.6.2 Movima
11.6.3 Kanamari
11.6.4 Malagasy
11.6.5 Nivkh
11.6.6 Nêlêmwa
11.6.7 Malayalam
11.7 Synthesis: The essence and attributes of FLEs
11.8 Have we learned anything about Japanese?
Acknowledgements
A rendaku bibliography
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Rendaku bibliography
12.3 Categories
References
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