著者

柴田 知薫子 SHIBATA Chikako

出版者

群馬大学教育学部

雑誌

群馬大学教育学部紀要. 人文・社会科学編 = Annual reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University. Cultural science series (ISSN:03864294)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, pp.101-109, 2020

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Phonological system of a particular language could change in thirty years of one generation. The Japanese language has undergone phonological evolution of its consonant system and prosodic system in these thirty years of the Heisei period: the distinctive feature of voiced plosives has changed from voicing to tenseness; the prosodic unit is changing from mora to syllable; the culminative function has predominated the distinctive function of word accent. These phonological changes are reflected on several cases of phonetic change among Japanese speakers of the Heisei generation.