Chapter 10. The tones of compounds with short codas in the modern dialects

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. A brief history of Japanese dialect research and dialect classification 4
6. Chapter 2. Tone or pitch-accent? 13
7. Chapter 3. The tone systems of the modern dialects 18
8. Chapter 4. On the interpretation of Middle Japanese tone notations 27
9. Chapter 5. Tracing the tone class divisions 32
10. Chapter 6. Outline of tonal developments in the history of Japanese 39
11. Chapter 7. The importance of compounds in pJ reconstruction 50
12. Chapter 8. The tone rules for compound nouns in Middle Japanese 54
13. Chapter 9. The tones of compounds with long codas in the modern dialects 66
14. Chapter 10. The tones of compounds with short codas in the modern dialects 86
15. Chapter 11. The genealogy of the dialects on the Sea of Japan coast and Kyūshū 104
16. Editor’s afterword 117
17. References 120
18. Appendix. Japanese tone database 126
19. Index 129