Japanese /r/ is not feature-less: A rejoinder to Labrune (2014)
Labrune (2014) argues that Japanese /r/ is structurally empty. This reply points out that the phonological characteristics of /r/ which are discussed by Labrune (2014) come with many systematic exceptions, and hence they are better modeled by violable constraints. To illustrate how violable constrai...
Main Author: | Kawahara Shigeto |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015-06-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2015-0011/opli-2015-0011.xml?format=INT |
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