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The Internal Structure of 'r' in Japanese

Kuniya Nasukawa、Phillip Backley

2011音韻研究Psychology被引 5

摘要

This paper examines the phonological behaviour of r in Japanese, arguing that it is represented in the Element Theory model by the single element |I|. Segments containing a single element are inherently weak: in the case of Japanese r it is prone to elision, it can result from lenition, and it prefers prosodically weak positions. Further motivation for representing r as |I| comes from the way r interacts with front vowels, which also contain |I|. We show how r acts as a hiatus-breaker in non-past verbs but only in the context of a preceding |I|-vowel, i or e.

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