- 著者
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神鳥 武彦
- 出版者
- 広島文化女子短期大学
- 雑誌
- 広島文化女子短期大学紀要 (ISSN:09137068)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.26, pp.71-86, 1993-07-10
The rhythm of Japanese is based on its writing system "Kana" which also represents its phonological segment. /R/ (a vowel with a long durative time), /N/ (a nasal) and /Q/ (a consonant with a long durative time) are called the special phonemes in Japanese, the m?ra phonemes. The suprasegmental feature of Japanese is characterized by these phonemes and /i/ after the vowels. Pitch accent on /R/, /N/, /Q/ and /i/ at word-level is defferent from that at sentence-level. Comparing the pitch accent patterns on these phonems at word-level and sentence-level, it is possible to say that the accent pattern on the phoneme /i/ is most stable and /R/, /N/ are less stable, then the accent pattern on the phoneme /Q/ is always inconsistant. The results show that it is not reasonable to say that Japanese has only two groups in its dialects, namely the Mora dialect and the Syllabeme dialect. The sutdy of accent patterns in Kumano dialect shows the both features of the Mora dialect and the Syllabeme dialect. Thus we shoud third category 'm?ra-syllabeme hibrid dialect' when we group the Japanese dialects.