Rendaku is not blocked by two nasal consonants: A reply to Kim (2022)

Rendaku is a morphophonological process in Japanese, in which the first consonant of the second element of compounds becomes voiced (e.g. /ao-sora/ → [ao-zora] ‘blue sky’). In a recent paper, Kim (2022) argues that the presence of two nasals—but not one nasal— in the second element reduces the proba...

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Main Authors: Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2023-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/9550/