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Mora clipping of loanwords in Japanese
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Mark Irwin
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May 19, 2017
Abstract
Loanwords in Japanese undergo a variety of truncation processes, including mora-clipping. Mora-clipping can itself be subdivided into back- (e.g. čokoreeto > čoko ‘chocolate’), fore- (wanisu > nisu ‘varnish’) and mid-clipping (moruhine > mohi ‘morphine’). Although back-clipping is the unmarked process, this paper seeks to answer a major issue as yet unresolved in the literature: at which mora are back-, fore- and mid-clippings typically clipped, and why? Although previous studies have claimed that syllable structure plays a major role, many exceptions remain unexplained.
Published Online: 2017-5-19
Published in Print: 2011-1-1
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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