Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese
Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese
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原始日语中七个元音的证据
DOI:
10.1075/cilt.294.03fre
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
J. Whitman
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作者:
B. Frellesvig;J. Whitman
In this chapter we present evidence to support the reconstruction of seven short vowels for proto-Japanese in (1) originally proposed and preliminarily presented in Frellesvig and Whitman (2004, forthcoming). 1 The seven vowel system for Japanese is reconstructed on Japanese-internal grounds (primarily internal reconstruction and dialect comparison), but it turns out to find further support from Japanese/Korean comparative evidence.(1)* i* ˆ* u* e* ə* o* aOJ had the following eight distinct vowels and postconsonantal diphthongs, shown in (2) in the notation used in this book. These are the eight entities which earlier were thought to be unitary vowel phonemes and referred to as the” eight vowels ‘of OJ. Since Lange (1973) and Matsumoto (1974) a diphthongal interpretation has become current.