The Emergence of the ‘Unaccented’: Possible Patterns and Variations in Japanese Compound Accentuation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. I. Studies in Japanese Phonology
5. Heaviness in Interfaces 3
6. The Accent of Tsuruoka Japanese Reconsidered 47
7. How should we Represent ‘g’ in toge in Japanese Underlyingly? 67
8. Domain-Relative Faithfulness and the OCP: Rendaku Revisited 85
9. Epenthetic Vowels and Accent in Japanese: Facts and Paradoxes 111
10. Prosodie Structure and Sandhi Phenomena in the Saru Dialect of Ainu 141
11. The Emergence of the ‘Unaccented’: Possible Patterns and Variations in Japanese Compound Accentuation 159
12. An Element-Based Analysis of Affrication in Japanese 193
13. The Accent System of the Kyoto Dialect of Japanese: A Study on Phrasal Patterns and Paradigms 215
14. II. Studies in Japanese Morphology
15. Word Plus: The Intersection of Words and Phrases 245
16. Further Evidence in Support of the Righthand Head Rule in Japanese 277
17. Against Headedness in Compound Truncation: English Compounds in Japanese 299
18. III. Studies in Contrastive Japanese- English Phonetics and Phonology
19. Two Different Kinds of Rhythm: Japanese and English 327
20. sC Clusters as Complex Segments: Evidence from the Contrastive Phonology of English and Japanese 357
21. Author Index 389
22. Language Index 394
23. Subject Index 396
24. List of Contributors 401