著者

早田 輝洋

出版者

日本音声学会

雑誌

音声研究 (ISSN:13428675)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, no.2, pp.37-44, 1997

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The Central Dialect of Heian Japanese exhibits three tonal melodies and one fall in pitch accent, if any. The fall mark accent should not be treated as part of a tonal melody. They are both specified in the underlying lexical items, but are mutually independent. It is argued that a downstep existed in this dialect from an autosegmental perspective. Some revisions are made in treating the tone of the imperfective participle ending <i>ru</i> and the <i>ku</i>-nominalization. The imperative <i>yo</i> and the vocative <i>yo</i> are shown to be tonally distinct and to be two different morphemes. The tone of the perfective <i>ari</i> and the copula <i>nari</i>, and the behavior of the third tonal melody are also dealt with.