Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2020

Syllable weakening and the moraic nasal in Kagoshima Japanese : An Element-Based Analysis

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This paper examines syllable weakening or nisshōka (入声化) in Kagoshima Japanese (KJ), where high vowel apocope feeds lenition, leading to correspondences such as Tōkyō Japanese (TJ) [kaki] ‘persimmon’ and Kagoshima [kaʔ]. The traditional pattern noted in the literature is quite clear. Apocope elides stem-final /u/ or /i/. The preceding onset is lenited in one of four ways: 1) stops and affricates are debuccalised (/kaki/ > [kaʔ] ‘persimmon’); 2) fricatives undergo voicing neutralisation (TJ [kazu] > KJ [kas] ‘number’); 3) nasals undergo place loss (TJ [kami] > KJ [kaɴ] ‘paper’); 4) rhotics undergo gliding (TJ [maru] > [maj] ‘round’). This paper presents an initial analysis of the data within Element Theory representational framework.

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hal-04072954 , version 1 (05-11-2025)

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Connor Youngberg. Syllable weakening and the moraic nasal in Kagoshima Japanese : An Element-Based Analysis. Giuseppe Pappalardo; Patrick Heinrich. European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics, Ca’ Foscari Edizioni, pp.31-45, 2020, 978-88-6969-429-5. ⟨10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/002⟩. ⟨hal-04072954⟩
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