Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation
It is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their occurrence. This paper aims at providing an optimal...
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| description | It is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their occurrence. This paper aims at providing an optimality-theoretic account of the processes that cause each of the five Japanese vowels to surface as epenthetic vowels. All three processes of vowel epenthesis – default vowel epenthesis, consonant place assimilitation and vowel harmony – are defined in terms of feature insertion or feature spreading (Uffmann 2006, 2007). The paper provides as well a quantitative analysis regarding the frequency of epenthetic vowels and epenthesis strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-07ba4c09508145b7bada32e5ee28c8572022-12-21T23:19:46ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics2069-92392069-92392015-05-01XVII14368Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptationCristina BălanIt is a generally accepted idea that vowel epenthesis is the main strategy used to repair illicit vowels in Japanese loanword adaptation; however, little attention has been paid to the quality of epenthetic vowels and the processes triggering their occurrence. This paper aims at providing an optimality-theoretic account of the processes that cause each of the five Japanese vowels to surface as epenthetic vowels. All three processes of vowel epenthesis – default vowel epenthesis, consonant place assimilitation and vowel harmony – are defined in terms of feature insertion or feature spreading (Uffmann 2006, 2007). The paper provides as well a quantitative analysis regarding the frequency of epenthetic vowels and epenthesis strategies.http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_1_BALAN.pdfdefault vowel epenthesisvowel harmonyconsonant assimilationfeature spreading |
| spellingShingle | Cristina Bălan Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics default vowel epenthesis vowel harmony consonant assimilation feature spreading |
| title | Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation |
| title_full | Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation |
| title_fullStr | Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation |
| title_short | Vowel epenthesis in Japanese loanword adaptation |
| title_sort | vowel epenthesis in japanese loanword adaptation |
| topic | default vowel epenthesis vowel harmony consonant assimilation feature spreading |
| url | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BWPL_2015_1_BALAN.pdf |
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