The Word-Final Moraic Obstruent in Japanese Mimetics(<Feature Articles><i>Sokuon</i>, or Moraic Obstruent)
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- NASU Akio
- University of Tsukuba
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- Other Title
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- オノマトペの語末促音(<特集>促音)
- オノマトペの語末促音
- オノマトペ ノ ゴマツ ソクオン
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to account for the phonological characteristics and prosodic function of a word-final moraic obstruent, namely the obstruent suffix /-Q/, in Japanese mimetics. Though phonological structure containing a word-final moraic obstruent is banned in the general vocabulary of Japanese, mimetics allow a moraic obstruent to appear in word-final position. More than 90% of disyllabic mimetic stems can take /-Q/ as a word-final element. This extraordinary frequency shows that word-final /-Q/ behaves as an unmarked default, which repairs ill-formed structures to satisfy certain prosodic requirements in mimetic phonology. /-Q/ plays a key role in constructing head-final prosodic structure, in which an accented trochaic foot appears in word-final position. The optimality-theoretic account in this paper shows that the head-final pattern is widely observed in and strongly required for well-formed prosody in Japanese mimetics.
Journal
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- Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan
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Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 11 (1), 47-57, 2007
The Phonetic Society of Japan
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- CRID
- 1390001204787366016
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- NII Article ID
- 110008763188
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- NII Book ID
- AA11148803
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- ISSN
- 21895961
- 13428675
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- NDL BIB ID
- 8890456
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed