Open AccessRepair Strategies for failed feature specification in Japanese: Evidence from loanwords, a reversing word game, and blending
Author(s) -
Daiho Kitaoka
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meetings on phonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-3324
DOI - 10.3765/amp.v4i0.3978
Subject(s) - consonant , feature (linguistics) , linguistics , reversing , lexicon , computer science , word (group theory) , vowel , process (computing) , speech recognition , natural language processing , engineering , philosophy , automotive engineering , operating system
This paper demonstrates repair strategies when place feature of the special moras in Japanese (the second half of a long vowel, moraic nasals, and the first half of a double consonant) fail to be specified in a usual manner. I posit three repair processes based on the observations of marked environments (loanwords, a word game called Sakasa Kotoba, blending): (i) over-application of regular structures in core lexicon, (ii) irregular structures that are produced through The Emergence of the Unmarked (TETU), and (iii) game-specific structures. I illustrate that even in marked environments, repair processes make outcome structures as unmarked as possible with these strategies. Based on the observations in the marked environments (mainly from Sakasa Kotoba), I further discuss the process of morification and underlying representations of special moras.