The Liquid and Stem-final Vowel Alternations of Verbs in Ancient Japanese

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  • 上代日本語の流音と動詞語幹末母音交替

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The aim of this paper is to clarify the phonological motivation for the stem-final /i-u/ and /e-u/ alternations of verbs, as well as properties of liquids in Ancient Japanese. I explore the possibility of a connection between the stem-final vowel alternations in verbs and certain properties of liquid consonants.<br>Present-day Japanese, at least the Tookyoo dialect, does not exhibit stem-final /i-u/ and /e-u/ alternations of verbs. Some modern dialects, e.g., those in Kyuushuu, exhibit alternation only in /e/-stem verbs, but not in /i/-stem verbs. This /e-u/ alternation is a relic of Ancient Japanese.<br>There has been only one liquid phoneme in Japanese throughout its history, whose phonetic realization remains an issue for phonologists.

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  • CRID
    1390282680098571776
  • NII Article ID
    130003565693
  • DOI
    10.11435/gengo1939.2000.118_5
  • ISSN
    21856710
    00243914
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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