This paper analyzes assimilation and its blocking (i.e., coda reduction) in Kagoshima Japanese consonant clusters. Kagoshima Japanese exhibits deletion of non-initial high vowels. Word final consonants caused by apocope are reduced in systematic fashion: That is (i) stops and affricates are reduced to glottal stop, (ii) fricatives neutralize to voiceless, (iii) nasals change to placeless moraic nasal, (iv) flap becomes nonsyllabic high front vowel. Consonant clusters (i.e., C1C2) created by syncope are assimilated or reduced depending on the combinations of consonants. Especially if C1 is stop, there occurs assimilation or coda reduction depending on the type of C2 (i.e., trigger manner treated in Jun (1995)): (i) stops entirely assimilate to following obstruents (e.g., stops and fricatives), but (ii) stops reduce to glottal stops before sonorants (e.g., nasals and glides), that is, assimilation is blocked. Jun (1995) proposes implicational statement about trigger manner from investigating 17 languages: (a) if nonnasal sonorants trigger place assimilation, so do nasals and fricatives, (b) if nasals or fricatives trigger place assimilation, so do stops. And he formalizes these implicational relation to preservation hierarchy on trigger manner. Our empirical surveys on Kagoshima Japanese, however, shows that there is also an implicational relation between fricatives and nasals: if nasals trigger place assimilation, so do fricatives, but not vice versa. This result can lead us to elaborate the preservation hierarchy on trigger manner.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.