日本語アクセントの祖体系再建の試み

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タイトル別名
  • Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-systems of Japanese Tones
  • Based on the Analysis of Downstep Phenomena in Some Japanese Dialects

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Data recently collected from some Japanese dialects such as Ibuki Island in the Inland Sea (Setonaikai) and neighboring areas in Kagawa prefecture, or Tsubata and Shiramine in Ishikawa prefecture, reveal a specific tonal pattern which bears a mid-tone mora (or a sequence of mid-tone morae) after 2 initial high tone morae in a single tonal phrase, as shown by #V V V …. This paper presents a hypothesis that this particular tonal pattern is derived, diachronically, from the sequence #HLH …, by rightward spread of the first high tone, thereby causing the downstepping of the second high tone, yielding the pattern #HHM….<br>Based on the assumption that phrases in the above geographical regions that now display #HHM… used to be, at a certain stage of their historical development, the sequence #HLH…, this paper first suggests a proto-accentual system of the mainland Japanese dialects, and subsequently illustrates the way in which some of the present dialects have developed their tonal systems from the common source. Contrary to the general assumption that the proto-accentual system of mainland Japanese dialects is that of the late Heian period annotated in the Ruijumyogisho, this paper attempts to show that the natural phonetic account of the tonal patterns of these dialects requires a common stage prior to that described in the Ruijumyogisho.<br>The paper further reconstructs a proto-accentual system of Japanese, based on the data collected in the present Ryukyuan dialects as well as the proto-accentual system of mainland Japanese established in the previous section of this paper. It is then suggested that, at least at one point, proto-Japanese had a balanced tonal-melody system consisting of extensive use of combinations of High and Low tones.

収録刊行物

  • 言語研究

    言語研究 1993 (103), 37-91, 1993

    日本言語学会

詳細情報 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390282680098815616
  • NII論文ID
    130003424769
  • DOI
    10.11435/gengo1939.1993.103_37
  • ISSN
    21856710
    00243914
  • 本文言語コード
    en
  • データソース種別
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    使用不可

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