Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- 7 Persistence and Change in Stem Prominence in Dene (Athabaskan) Languages
- 8 Spanish Word Stress
- 9 Metrically Conditioned Pitch Accent in Uspanteko
- 10 Focus Prosody in Kagoshima Japanese
- 11 Where Is the Dutch Stress System?
- 12 Morphologically Assigned Accent and an Initial Three-Syllable Window in Ese’eja
- 13 The Scales-and-Parameters Approach to Morpheme-Specific Exceptions in Accent Assignment
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
10 - Focus Prosody in Kagoshima Japanese
from Part III - Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2018
Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- 7 Persistence and Change in Stem Prominence in Dene (Athabaskan) Languages
- 8 Spanish Word Stress
- 9 Metrically Conditioned Pitch Accent in Uspanteko
- 10 Focus Prosody in Kagoshima Japanese
- 11 Where Is the Dutch Stress System?
- 12 Morphologically Assigned Accent and an Initial Three-Syllable Window in Ese’eja
- 13 The Scales-and-Parameters Approach to Morpheme-Specific Exceptions in Accent Assignment
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses focus prosody in Kagoshima Japanese, a dialect with a lexical prosodic system. Starting with the phenomenon of question particle incorporation in direct (matrix) Wh-questions, Kubozono considers the incorporation of sentence-final particles into the sentence-final prosodic phrase. All these phenomena can be generalized as manifestations of focus prosody whereby sentential particles are incorporated into the domain of prosodic phrase in post-focal positions. This process can be attributed to the OCP (Obligatory Contour Principle) whereby sequences of high tones are avoided by a dissimilatory process of H tone deletion and a subsequent process of prosodic rephrasing. This analysis nicely explains why particle incorporation fails to occur in a particular accent class of words as well as in yes/no questions and other syntactic constructions. The chapter argues that post-focal prosodic incorporation is not an isolated phenomenon in Kagoshima Japanese; similar prosodic (re)phrasing phenomena are found in other dialects and languages such as standard Tokyo Japanese, Fukuoka Japanese, and the south Kyungsang dialect of Korean.
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