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标题：Contrast in Japanese vowels
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作者：Manami Hirayama
期刊名称：Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：1718-3510
出版年度：2003
卷号：20
期号：0
语种：English
出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：Phonological patterning reflects the feature specifications of the inventory of a language. I explain the behaviour of vowels in Japanese /a, i, u, e, o/ in terms of their featural specifications under the assumption of the theory of contrastive specification, a theory that incorporates hierarchical determination of features. The phonological processes of Japanese include epenthesis, coalescence and allophonic rules. We encounter contradictory evidence for phonological feature specification from the different processes. However, the contradiction can be solved by recognizing the different domains in which each phonological process takes place. Rules that apply in the lexical domain have access only to the underlyingly specified features, while post-lexical rules can also refer to the features that are underspecified in the lexicon. However, the features available in the post-lexical domain involve a wider set than those at the lexical level. The domain-based analysis allows us to maintain the idea of contrastive specification for the underlying representation. In examining the mutual relationship between the underlyingly specified features, it is proposed that there is more than one possible hierarchical ordering for the Japanese vowel system.
关键词：Japanese;Vowels;Epenthesis;Height;Place;Affrication;Devoicing