Abstract
Most known cases of affix controlled accentuation patterns involve local accent assignment: prefixes assign root-initial accents whereas suffixes assign root-final accents. In this article we document the nonlocal accentuation behavior of -zu, a recently emerged suffix in Japanese which an elicitation study reveals to be productively root-initial-accenting. We present a phonological analysis of the -zu data, showing that standard theories of morpheme realization predict the existence of such a suffix. The existence of -zu therefore fills what would otherwise be an undesirable typological gap.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 837-864 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Linguistics |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 Jul |
| Externally published | Yes |
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On the existence of root-initial-accenting suffixes : An elicitation study of Japanese -zu. / Kawahara, Shigeto; Wolf, Matthew.
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AB - Most known cases of affix controlled accentuation patterns involve local accent assignment: prefixes assign root-initial accents whereas suffixes assign root-final accents. In this article we document the nonlocal accentuation behavior of -zu, a recently emerged suffix in Japanese which an elicitation study reveals to be productively root-initial-accenting. We present a phonological analysis of the -zu data, showing that standard theories of morpheme realization predict the existence of such a suffix. The existence of -zu therefore fills what would otherwise be an undesirable typological gap.
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