Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese
Implications for the Syntax-Prosody Interface
Series: Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects; 2;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 20 December 2023
- ISBN 9789004644649
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 636 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese and the insights that can be gained from them for theories of the syntax-prosody interface, with a special focus on compounds with particularly variable, potentially endangered prosody.
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This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they simultaneously resemble not only other compound words but also non-compound phrases, making them valuable test cases for compound prosodic structure. This book discusses potential reasons for these compounds' prosodic variabilty and what may condition their unique prosody, based on results from novel fieldwork. A unified account of compound prosody in Kansai and three other Japanese dialects is also presented.
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Overview of the Book
1.3 Background on Japanese Phonology
1.4 The Syntax-Prosody Interface and Match Theory
1.5 Compounds
2 Accent
2.1 Pitch Accent or Tone?
2.2 Accent and Tone Bearing Units
2.3 Characteristics of the Accentual Systems of Tokyo, Kansai, Kagoshima, and Nagasaki Japanese in Simplex Words
2.4 Introduction to Japanese Compounds
2.5 Overview of Tokyo, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Kansai Japanese Compound Words
3 The Syntax-Prosody of Japanese Compounds
3.1 The Syntax of Japanese Compounds
3.2 The Syntactic Structure of Japanese Compounds
3.3 Prosodic Structures and Prosodic Categories
3.4 Non-right-headed Compounds
4 Kansai Japanese Compound Accentuation
4.1 Register Inheritance and Accent Loss ? Overview and Analysis
4.2 Word Compounds and the Necessity of Junctural Alignment
4.3 Symmetrical Phrasal Compounds
4.4 A Deeper Look at the Word-Phrase Compound
4.5 Implications for a Theory of the Syntax-Prosody Interface
5 Where Do Word-Phrase Compounds Come From?
5.1 The N2 Length Problem and the No Unique Word-Phrase Parse Problem
5.2 Discovering Additional Conditioning Factors on the Word-Phrase Parse
5.3 Novel Fieldwork on the Word-Phrase Parse
6 Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Constraints
Appendix 2: Full Candidate Sets
Appendix 3: List of Nakai Compounds
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Constraints and Constraint Families
Index of Language Names
Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese: Implications for the Syntax-Prosody Interface
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