Using Stylus-impressed Documents as Historical Data for the Study of Dialect

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  • 方言史料として観た角筆文献
  • ホウゲン シリョウ ト シテ ミタ カクヒツ ブンケン

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Abstract

Stylus-impressed documents are shown to be effective data for the investigation of the history of dialects, in particular, the pronunciation of long closed o-vowels as long w-vowels after a glide (jo:>ju:) and the shortening of long o-vowels (o:>o). I give an overview of the principles underlying the notation of long o-vowels in a stylus- impressed Raiki 禮記 text owned by Kongō Dōin 金剛幢院 in Tottori Prefecture that was carved in woodblock in 1787 and stylus-impressed in 1856. Using evidence from stylus-impressed documents, I demonstrate that the pronunciation of long closed o-vowels as long u-vowels formerly occurred in colloquial Japanese throughout Japan and still exists in Japanese dialects in Kyūshū and a part of Niigata Prefecture, and investigate the relation between uses in stylus-impressed documents and these modern dialects. I also give evidence for the shortening of long closed o-vowels in both stylus-impressed documents and modern Japanese dialects.

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  • 国語学

    国語学 171 1-30, 1992-12-31

    国語学会

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