The Development of y-final clusters in Asokan Rock Edicts

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  • The Development of y-final clusters in Aśokan Rock Edicts

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This paper examines the development of y-final clusters in the six dialects, i.e. three western and three eastern, of Aśokan Rock Edicts. The outcomes of y-final clusters are different depending on the dialects and the phonetic properties of the consonant that precedes y. In terms of the manner of articulation of the preceding consonants, nasals, sibilants and l tend to trigger assimilation in all dialects while stops, r, and v typically induce vowel epenthesis. As for the place of articulation of the preceding consonants, voiced dental stops and coronal nasals induce assimilation of y. Adjacent consonants that share more phonetic properties with y are more likely to assimilate than consonants that are dissimilar from y. In terms of dialectal variations, the original clusters are preserved or undergo assimilation or coalescence more often in the western group than in the eastern group, where the clusters are affected by vowel epenthesis instead. Additional dialectal differences suggest that the conventional west-east dichotomy does not necessarily coincide with the isoglosses of the development of the different y-final clusters.

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    研究論集 110 19-34, 2019-09

    関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部

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