Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project (Studies in Language Companion Series)

ISBN 10: 9027259410 / ISBN 13: 9789027259417

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Compan, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project (Studies in Language Companion Series)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Compan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027259410
• ISBN 13: 9789027259417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include broad surveys of theoretical analyses and of psycholinguistic studies, meticulous assessments (some relying on a new database) of many of the factors that putatively inhibit or promote rendaku, an investigation of how learners of Japanese as foreign language deal with rendaku, in-depth examinations of rendaku in a divergent dialect of Japanese and in a Ryukyuan language, and a cross-linguistic exploration of rendaku-like compound markers in unrelated languages. Since rendaku is ubiquitous but recalcitrantly irregular, it provides a challenge for any general theory of morphophonology. This collection should serve both to restrain oversimplified accounts of rendaku and to inspire to further research.