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oapen-20.500.12657-879342024-03-28T14:03:22Z Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese Angeles, Andrew accent fieldwork informativeness match optimality phonology pitch prosody recursion theory tone thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they simultaneously resemble not only other compound words but also non-compound phrases, making them valuable test cases for compound prosodic structure. This book discusses potential reasons for these compounds' prosodic variabilty and what may condition their unique prosody, based on results from novel fieldwork. A unified account of compound prosody in Kansai and three other Japanese dialects is also presented. 2024-02-23T14:18:36Z 2024-02-23T14:18:36Z 2023 book ONIX_20240223_9789004677647_16 9789004677647 9789004644649 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87934 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004677647.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/68170 Brill 10.1163/9789004677647 10.1163/9789004677647 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 d3012776-fc95-455a-935d-afd4dae33a93 9789004677647 9789004644649 [...] open access
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This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they simultaneously resemble not only other compound words but also non-compound phrases, making them valuable test cases for compound prosodic structure. This book discusses potential reasons for these compounds' prosodic variabilty and what may condition their unique prosody, based on results from novel fieldwork. A unified account of compound prosody in Kansai and three other Japanese dialects is also presented.
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