The Three Pattern Prosodic System of the Kohama Dialect of Yaeyama Ryukyuan

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  • Celik Kenan
    Research Department, National Institute For Japanese Language and Linguistics
  • Aso Reiko
    Faculty of International Studies, Meio University

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  • 南琉球八重山語小浜方言の三型アクセント体系

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<p>Based on the authors’ fieldwork, we present three key findings about the lexical prosodic system of the Kohama dialect of Yaeyama. First, we show that the Kohama dialect distinguishes between three different tone classes. Second, like many other dialects of Southern Ryukyuan, we show that the prosodic word, defined as a prosodic unit between the syllable and the minimal syntactic phrase, needs to be posited in order to achieve an adequate generalization of the pitch patterns of each tone class. Lastly, we observe that the three tone classes of Kohama regularly correspond to the tone classes reconstructed in proto-Ryukyuan.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390862931516944128
  • DOI
    10.24467/onseikenkyu.28.1_1
  • ISSN
    21895961
    13428675
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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