著者

松浦 年男

出版者

九州大学大学院人文科学研究院言語学研究室

雑誌

九州大学言語学論集 (ISSN:13481592)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.29-58, 2009-12

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This paper describes the accentual patterns of Sino-Japanese compounds in Nagasaki Japanese. By investigating the accentual patterns of actual and nonce Sino-Japanese compounds, I demonstrated that the accentual pattern of a Sino-Japanese compound is determined by the mora length of the second element of the compound. If the second element of a Sino-Japanese compound consists of one mora, the compound is produced with a falling pattern (Type A), otherwise it is produced with a flat pattern (Tone B). Since the same generalization holds also in Standard Tokyo Japanese, the result strongly implies that the accentual patterns of Nagasaki Japanese are influenced by the accentual patterns of Standard Tokyo Japanese.