Feature Predictability and Underspecification: Palatal Prosody in Japanese Mimetics
Feature Predictability and Underspecification: Palatal Prosody in Japanese Mimetics
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特征可预测性和不规范：日语模仿中的腭韵律
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1989
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通讯作者：
Junko Ito
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R. Mester;Junko Ito;Junko Ito
这篇论文认为，语音不规范理论要求特征的所有可预测值的潜在缺失是双重问题：对某些情况太激进，对另一些情况不够激进。在日语拟声(音符)词汇中的舌化韵律操作符中发现了支持受限欠规范理论的相关证据。结果表明，拟腭化是一个独立的自切分微语素从右向左映射到拟根上的表面表现。我们进一步认为，隐含特征理论更好地解释了需要极少指定表征的情况，该理论不仅从根本上而且在整个语音派生过程中正确地预测了所需的不足表征。
This paper argues that theories of phonological underspecification requiring the underlying absence of all predictable values of features are doubly problematic: too radical for certain cases, not radical enough for others. Relevant evidence in favor of a Restricted Theory of Underspecification is found in the palatalization prosody operative in the mimetic (sound-symbolic) vocabulary of Japanese. It is shown that mimetic palatalization is the surface manifestation of an independent autosegmental micromorpheme mapped from right to left onto the mimetic root. We argue furthermore that cases calling for radically underspecified representations are more adequately accounted for by a Theory of Privative Features, which alone correctly predicts the desired underspecification not only underlyingly but also throughout the phonological derivation.*