From Rutgers Optimality Archive, Dec. 23, 2015.
| ROA: | 1265 |
| Title: | Updating the analysis of Japanese compound accent |
| Authors: | John Alderete |
| Comment: | In Short ‘schrift for Alan Prince, compiled by Eric Bakovi? |
| Length: | 5 pgs |
| Abstract: | Antepenultimacy has long been an organizing principle for both word and compound accent in Japanese, but constraint-based phonology has not yet formalized the relationship between the two domains. This squib assumes the formal commitments to antepenultimacy in Ito & Mester 2015/to appear (Linguistic Inquiry) and sketches a way to unify the two domains by further assuming compounds are layered into recursive prosodic words, the second of which is the head and must therefore bear accent. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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Keywords: |
prosody, pitch accent, Japanese, compounds, headedness |