Abstract
This paper develops a new analysis of the antepenultimate accent principle that determines the default location of the pitch accent in Japanese words (namely, on the syllable containing the antepenultimate mora). The chief innovation is that this analysis also applies to compounds, where it predicts the location of accent in compounds with “short” N2 (one or two moras) – so-called “preaccentuation” at the end of N1, which often does not coincide with the penultimate mora. In addition, the paper sketches an extension of the analysis subsuming the N2-initial accent characteristic of compounds with “long” N2 (three or four moras).
Acknowledgements
This work was presented in a seminar at UC Santa Cruz in Fall 2017, and we are very grateful to the participants, and to two anonymous reviewers, for helpful comments and suggestions. Thanks also to the editors, Mineharu Nakayama and Tomo Yoshida, for their guidance. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to Professor Kazuko Inoue, who was the BA/MA advisor at ICU for the first author. Over the years, Professor Inoue continued to follow our work on Japanese phonology with great interest, and encouraged us to present at various venues in Japan.
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