Consonant Gemination in Japanese Loanword Phonology
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چکیده
The distribution of geminate obstruents in Japanese loanwords appears very complex. Some consonants are more prone to gemination than others, on the one hand, and one and the same consonant is more likely to geminate in some phonological contexts than in others, on the other hand. This paper tackles these problems by considering the relationship between consonant gemination in native words and that of loanwords. It proposes a principled prosodic analysis by which gemination is allowed to occur if and only if it improves prosodic structure. This analysis reveals that gemination in loanwords is essentially an output-oriented phenomenon and that loanword phonology is closely related with and severely constrained by
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