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Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese

Implications for the Syntax-Prosody Interface

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Andrew Angeles

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-20
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt636 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEndangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects
Antal sidor290
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004644649

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ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and Tables1 Introduction1.1 Introduction1.2 Overview of the Book1.3 Background on Japanese Phonology1.4 The Syntax-Prosody Interface and Match Theory1.5 Compounds2 Accent2.1 Pitch Accent or Tone?2.2 Accent and Tone Bearing Units2.3 Characteristics of the Accentual Systems of Tokyo, Kansai, Kagoshima, and Nagasaki Japanese in Simplex Words2.4 Introduction to Japanese Compounds2.5 Overview of Tokyo, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Kansai Japanese Compound Words3 The Syntax-Prosody of Japanese Compounds3.1 The Syntax of Japanese Compounds3.2 The Syntactic Structure of Japanese Compounds3.3 Prosodic Structures and Prosodic Categories3.4 Non-right-headed Compounds4 Kansai Japanese Compound Accentuation4.1 Register Inheritance and Accent Loss – Overview and Analysis4.2 Word Compounds and the Necessity of Junctural Alignment4.3 Symmetrical Phrasal Compounds4.4 A Deeper Look at the Word-Phrase Compound4.5 Implications for a Theory of the Syntax-Prosody Interface5 Where Do Word-Phrase Compounds Come From?5.1 The N2 Length Problem and the No Unique Word-Phrase Parse Problem5.2 Discovering Additional Conditioning Factors on the Word-Phrase Parse5.3 Novel Fieldwork on the Word-Phrase Parse6 ConclusionAppendix 1: List of ConstraintsAppendix 2: Full Candidate SetsAppendix 3: List of Nakai CompoundsBibliographyIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of SubjectsIndex of Constraints and Constraint FamiliesIndex of Language Names