Sequential Voicing in Japanese : Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project.

Intro -- Sequential Voicing in Japanese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- In memory of Hideki Zamma (1969-2016) -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1.1 The NINJAL Rendaku Project -- 1.2 The Rendaku alternations -- 1.3 Orthography -- 1.4 Rendaku research and the papers in this book -- 1.5 References -- Acknowledgements -- Generative treatments of rendaku and related issues -- 2.1 General introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical treatments of rendaku -- 2.2.1 SPE-style rules -- 2.2.2 Autosegmental analysis -- 2.2.3 A special case of intervocalic voicing -- 2.2.4 Compound marking via Realize-Morpheme -- 2.2.5 Rendaku as (lack of) devoicing -- 2.2.6 Summary -- 2.3 Theoretical expressions of Lyman's Law -- 2.3.1 Lyman's Law as an autosegmental feature deletion rule -- 2.3.2 OCP(voice) -- 2.3.3 Local conjunction -- 2.3.4 Interlude: A fully OT analysis -- 2.3.5 Why sonorant voicing is ignored by Lyman's Law -- 2.3.5.1 Underspeci cation -- 2.3.5.2 Privative feature theory -- 2.3.5.3 Obstruent voicing and sonorant voicing as different features -- 2.3.5.4 Direct encoding in constraint formulation -- 2.3.5.5 Lyman's Law as orthotactics -- 2.3.5.6 Summary -- 2.3.6 Lyman's Law and velar nasalization: Derivational opacity -- 2.4 The Right-Branch Condition -- 2.4.1 C-command requirement -- 2.4.2 A cyclic analysis -- 2.4.3 Positional faithfulness at a PrWd edge -- 2.5 Other issues and general discussion -- 2.5.1 Other issues -- 2.5.1.1 Rendaku and lexical strati cation in Japanese -- 2.5.1.2 Lyman's Law, conspiracy, and the duplication problem -- 2.5.1.3 Lyman's Law and the dual nature of phonological constraints -- 2.5.2 Remaining questions about theories of rendaku -- 2.5.3 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Psycholinguistic studies of rendaku -- 3.1 Outline -- 3.2 Grammatical versus Lexical.

3.3 Experiments on speci c aspects of rendaku -- 3.3.1 Lexical strati cation and rendaku -- 3.3.2 Effects of E1 -- 3.3.3 The Right-Branch Condition -- 3.3.4 Semantic relationships between E1 and E2 -- 3.3.5 Segmental effects -- 3.4 Experiments on Lyman's Law -- 3.5 Some remaining issues -- Acknowledgements -- Rendaku and Identity Avoidance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Synopsis -- 4.1.2 Background and the current study -- 4.2 Method -- 4.2.1 Task -- 4.2.2 Stimuli -- 4.2.3 Procedure and participants -- 4.2.4 Statistics -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- 4.4.1 The effect of moraic Identity Avoidance -- 4.4.2 The effect of Consonantal Identity Avoidance -- 4.4.3 Coexistence and granularity of Identity Avoidance Effects -- 4.5 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Rendaku awareness of Japanese learners in Taiwan -- 5.1 Rendaku and JFL learners -- 5.2 Survey -- 5.2.1 Respondents -- 5.2.2 Questionnaire -- 5.3 Results -- 5.3.1 Responses to test-item compounds -- 5.3.2 Questions about pronunciation and Kanji -- 5.3.3 Questions about Rendaku -- 5.3.4 Questions about Lyman's Law -- 5.4 Discussion -- 5.5 Pedagogical suggestions -- Acknowledgements -- The Rendaku Database -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Previous research -- 6.1.2 The Rendaku Database -- 6.1.3 Scope of this paper -- 6.2 General statistical analysis -- 6.2.1 By non-final element (E1) -- 6.2.2 By final element (E2) -- 6.2.3 By entire compound (E1+E2) -- 6.3 Rendaku statistical analysis -- 6.3.1 Preliminaries -- 6.3.2 By non-final element(s) (E1) -- 6.3.3 By final element (E2) -- 6.3.4 Personality -- 6.4 Summary of results and future research -- Rosen's Rule -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Interpretations and de nitions -- 7.3 Statistical analysis -- 7.4 Implications -- Rendaku and individual segments -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Susceptibility of target segments -- 8.3 In uence of nearby segments.

8.3.1 Immediately preceding moraic nasal -- 8.3.2 Onset r in immediately preceding mora -- 8.3.3 Other consonants in immediately preceding mora -- 8.3.4 Medial m and immunity -- 8.4 Phenomena that preempt rendaku -- 8.4.1 Moraic obstruent insertion -- 8.4.2 Alternation of h with w -- 8.5 Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Rendaku in Okinawan -- 9.1 Outline -- 9.2 Background -- 9.2.1 Some differences between Shuri and Japanese -- 9.2.2 Consonants -- 9.2.3 Vowels -- 9.2.4 Syllable structure -- 9.2.5 Morphophonological phenomena -- 9.2.5.1 Progressive palatalization -- 9.2.5.2 Rendaku -- 9.2.5.3 Lyman's Law -- 9.2.5.4 Examples in Shuri -- 9.3 Issues -- 9.3.1 Claimed phonologically-based exceptions to rendaku -- 9.3.1.1 Sh/ši/ -- 9.3.1.2 Sh/ / -- 9.3.2 "De-Rendaku": *pre-OOk/+⊕VC…/ &gt -- Sh/+nC…/ -- 9.3.2.1 Sh/qču/ ~ Sh/+nču/ '(+)person' -- 9.3.2.2 Sh/qkwa/ ~ Sh/+ngwa/ 'child' -- 9.3.2.3 Other examples -- 9.3.3 R2 due to morph-internal voiced-obstruent-mora change to Sh/n/ -- 9.3.3.1 R2: *pre-OOk/padus­/ &gt -- … → Sh/+hans-/ -- 9.3.3.2 R2: *pre-OOk/pazik­/ &gt -- … → Sh/+bank-/ ~ Sh/+banč-/ -- 9.3.3.3 R2(?): *pre-OOk/tume+sirabe/ &gt -- … &gt -- Sh/cindami/ -- 9.3.3.4 The unpredictability of R2 -- 9.3.4 Rendaku and its relation to word-initial voiced obstruents -- 9.3.4.1 Rendaku-compound E2s "decoupled" from their E1s? -- 9.3.4.2 Exceptional initial voiced obstruents: "Natural-world" nouns -- 9.3.4.3 Nouns with initial voiced obstruents -- 9.3.4.4 Similar semantic cases in Japanese -- 9.3.4.5 Similar semantic cases in Korean -- 9.3.4.6 Sh/ganšina(h)/ -- 9.3.4.7 Two "Irregular" Cases: Sh/gužira/ 'whale' and Sh/gažimaru/ 'banyan' -- 9.4 Toponyms -- 9.4.1 Toponyms beginning with Sh/b/ -- 9.4.2 Toponyms beginning with Sh/d/ -- 9.4.3 Toponyms beginning with Sh/g/ -- 9.4.4 Topynyms Beginning with Sh/z ž/.

9.5 In closing: Did rendaku exist in Proto-Japonic? -- Acknowledgements -- Rendaku in Tōhoku Japanese -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Yamagata Dialects and Kahoku Dialect -- 10.3 Kahoku Phonology and Morphophonology -- 10.3.1 Consonants -- 10.3.2 Vowels -- 10.4 Rendaku and Prenasalization -- 10.4.1 Prenasalization -- 10.4.2 Rendaku and Prenasalization in the Kahoku Dialect -- 10.5 Kahoku Rendaku Survey -- 10.5.1 Survey Method -- 10.5.2 Rendaku Prenasalization Data -- 10.5.3 Variability in the Realization of Prenasalization -- 10.5.4 Other Possible In uences on Prenasalization Rate -- 10.5.4.1 Sociolinguistic Factors -- 10.5.4.2 Nativeness of Vocabulary -- 10.5.4.3 Dialect Contact and Dialect Leveling -- 10.6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Rendaku in cross-linguistic perspective -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 De ning rendaku -- 11.2.1 Rendaku as a linking element -- 11.2.2 Rendaku as a featural af x -- 11.2.3 Rendaku as a featural linking element -- 11.3 Korean -- 11.4 Basque -- 11.5 Excursus: On some intriguing properties of voiced obstruents in Japanese, tense consonants in Korean, and voiceless and affricate consonants in Basque -- 11.6 Other Languages with FLEs -- 11.6.1 Slave -- 11.6.2 Movima -- 11.6.3 Kanamari -- 11.6.4 Malagasy -- 11.6.5 Nivkh -- 11.6.6 Nêlêmwa -- 11.6.7 Malayalam -- 11.7 Synthesis: The essence and attributes of FLEs -- 11.8 Have we learned anything about Japanese? -- Acknowledgements -- A rendaku bibliography -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Rendaku bibliography -- 12.3 Categories -- References -- Index.

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