Japanese onomatopoeia and sequential voicing(Rendaku)

• 발행기관: 형태론
• 저자명: Kadooka Ken-Ichi
• 간행물 정보: 『형태론』형태론 7권 2호, 365~386쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.09.30

영문 초록

This paper examines the productivity of the phonological process of sequential voicing, or rendaku, in Japanese. Sequential voicing is a phonological process that voices the voiceless consonant of a second morpheme when it is reduplicated or compounded. As is often pointed out, the occurrence of sequential voicing is unpredictable. The mimetic lexicon in Japanese is differentiated from the other strata of the lexicon in terms of the application of sequential voicing. If sequential voicing were applied, ungrammatical forms would be derived. That is to say, in onomatopoeia the mixing of unvoiced and voiced bases is not allowed in one word. We can find, however, a few exceptions to this principle: alternation forms teki-paki and dogi-magi, and ko-prefixation in ko-zaQpari, ko-ziQkari, ko-diNmari. Thus, it seems reasonable to distinguish lexical strata in Japanese, as McCawley(1968) did in the four-stratum system of Yamato, Onomatopoeia, Sino and Western.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Sequential Voicing in Japanese

3. Onomatopoeia Markers in Japanese

4. Onomatopoeia and Voicing

5. Exceptions to Rendaku in Onomatopoeia

6. Conclusion

키워드

Japanese onomatopoeia sequential voicing compounds prefix alternation forms