The Accent of Compounds in the Amami Dialects

通过田野调查，对阿美米群岛22个村庄的复合名词的口音进行了调查。研究发现，重音基本上是由第一个成分的重音决定的，但也有一些例外，还考察了方言中动词的持续形式。本研究收集了阿美族方言中动词和形容词的连词形式的数据，特别是韵律方面的数据。基开-吉马岛的Onosu方言中的助词表现出一个特点：单个语素助词的重音与相同长度的语素序列的重音不同。

The accent of compound nouns of 22 villages in the Amami Archipelago was investigated by fieldwork. It was found that the accent was basically determined by the accent of the first element, but there were some exceptions.The durative forms of verbs were also investigated in the dialects. The data of the conjugated forms of verbs and adjectives in the Amami dialects were collected with particular reference to prosodemes.The particles in the Onotsu dialect of Kikai-jima Island show a peculiarity : there is a difference between the accent of the single morpheme particles and that of the morpheme sequences of the same length.