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Rendaku in Japanese Dialects that Retain
Prenasalization Timothy J. Vance — NINJAL
Mizuki Miyashita — University of Montana
Mark Irwin —Yamagata University
21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
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Rendaku
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The morphophonemic phenomenon known as rendaku (連濁) occurs mainly in compounds in Japanese.
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The morphophonemic phenomenon known as rendaku (連濁) occurs mainly in compounds in Japanese.
In the Tokyo dialect, a morpheme that shows rendaku has one allomorph beginning with a voiceless obstruent and another allomorph beginning with a voiced obstruent, and the latter can appear only when it is a non-initial morph in a word.
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/tori/
/tori+kago/
/ahoH+dori/
‘bird’
‘birdcage’
‘goony bird’ (= ‘albatross’)
鳥
鳥籠
あほう鳥
This is an instance of rendaku.
For example:
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However, rendaku is highly irregular.
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However, rendaku is highly irregular.
First, many morphemes do not alternate in this way, although in some cases there are known factors that systematically inhibit rendaku.
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However, rendaku is highly irregular.
First, many morphemes do not alternate in this way, although in some cases there are known factors that systematically inhibit rendaku.
Second, many morphemes that do alternate behave unpredictably, appearing with voicing in some words and without voicing in others, for no apparent reason.
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Because of well-known historical changes, some of the alternations in the modern Tokyo dialect involve more than just a difference in voicing.
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Because of well-known historical changes, some of the alternations in the modern Tokyo dialect involve more than just a difference in voicing.
As a result, rendaku in the Tokyo dialect is rather opaque phonetically.
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Because of well-known historical changes, some of the alternations in the modern Tokyo dialect involve more than just a difference in voicing.
As a result, rendaku in the Tokyo dialect is rather opaque phonetically.
For example, /b/ alternates with /h/ or /f/ (realized as [ɸ]), not with /p/.
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As in:
/hone/ /se+bone/ ‘bone’ ‘backbone’
骨 背骨
/fukuro/ /gomi+bukuro/ ‘bag’ ‘trash bag’
袋 ゴミ袋
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In kana spelling, however, rendaku is transparent: the difference between the voiced alternant and the voiceless alternant of a morpheme is always just the presence versus absence of the dakuten diacritic on the first letter.
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/fune/
/hako/
/tama/
/kami/
/cuka/
/sora/
/či/
/šika/
ふね はこ たま かみ つか そら ち しか
/kawa+bune/
/haši+bako/
/me+dama/
/kabe+gami/
/ari+zuka/
/hoši+zora/
/hana+ǰi/
/ko+ǰika/
かわ+ぶね はし+ばこ め+だま かべ+がみ あり+づか ほし+ぞら はな+ぢ こ+じか
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There is little doubt that Tokyo speakers see all the rendaku alternations as instances of the same general phenomenon.
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Tōhoku Dialects
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In some other dialects, notably those of the Tōhoku (northeastern Honshū) region, rendaku is even more phonetically opaque.
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Also, since non-Tokyo dialects are not usually written, there is no orthographic support for treating the rendaku alternations in such a dialect as a unitary phenomenon.
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Many Tōhoku dialects preserve the word-medial prenasalized voiced obstruents that historical linguists typically infer for 8th-century Old Japanese.
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Many Tōhoku dialects preserve the word-medial prenasalized voiced obstruents that historical linguists typically infer for 8th-century Old Japanese.
That is, these dialects have word-medial [ᵐb], [ⁿd], [ⁿdz], and [ᵑɡ] (or [ŋ]) corre-sponding to Tokyo word-medial [b d z ɡ] (ignoring more traditional Tokyo varieties that have medial [ŋ] in many words).
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In fact, the standard diachronic account of the origin of rendaku depends crucially on the presence of such prenasalization in prehistoric Japanese.
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In fact, the standard diachronic account of the origin of rendaku depends crucially on the presence of such prenasalization in prehistoric Japanese.
There is solid evidence that the Kyoto dialect preserved some prenasalization as late as the early 17th century.
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Yamagata
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Our presentation today will focus on the traditional dialects of Yamagata Prefecture.
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Our presentation today will focus on the traditional dialects of Yamagata Prefecture.
There is considerable diversity among these traditional dialects, but they generally have prenasalized voiced obstruents corresponding to word-medial plain voiced obstruents in the Tokyo dialect.
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Our co-author, Mizuki Miyashita, grew up in Kahoku-chō (河北町), in the Murayama (村山) region of Yamagata Prefecture.
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Our co-author, Mizuki Miyashita, grew up in Kahoku-chō (河北町), in the Murayama (村山) region of Yamagata Prefecture.
She finds the dialect spoken in the Shōnai (庄内) region, near the Sea of Japan, almost incomprehensible.
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Our co-author, Mizuki Miyashita, grew up in Kahoku-chō (河北町), in the Murayama (村山) region of Yamagata Prefecture.
She finds the dialect spoken in the Shōnai (庄内) region, near the Sea of Japan, almost incomprehensible.
In the rest of today’s presentation, we use the Kahoku-chō dialect as a representative Yamagata dialect.
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Mizuki Miyashita
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Kahoku-chō
Shōnai
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TODAY’S FACTOID
The first attestation for the technical term rendaku is in an early 19th-century description of the Shōnai dialect by one Ujie Ryūkei (氏家竜渓).
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Yamagata [mɑ̃ⁿdo] ‘window’, with a prenasalized medial stop, corresponds to Tokyo [mɑdo] (/mado/).
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Yamagata [mɑ̃ⁿdo] ‘window’, with a prenasalized medial stop, corresponds to Tokyo [mɑdo] (/mado/).
In addition, word-medial plain voiced stops in Yamagata correspond to voiceless stops in Tokyo.
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Yamagata [mɑ̃ⁿdo] ‘window’, with a prenasalized medial stop, corresponds to Tokyo [mɑdo] (/mado/).
In addition, word-medial plain voiced stops in Yamagata correspond to voiceless stops in Tokyo.
For example, Yamagata [mɑdo] ‘target’ corresponds to Tokyo [mɑto] (/mato/).
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Yamagata Rendaku
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We would expect instances of rendaku in Yamagata to be realized as prenasalized voiced obstruents, and this is what we find in many semantically opaque, fossilized compounds.
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For example, Tokyo /hamaguri/ ‘clam’ is etymologically a compound of /hama/ ‘beach’ and /kuri/ ‘chestnut’, and the corresponding word in Yamagata has prenasalization: [hamɑ̃ᵑgɨɾi].
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For example, Tokyo /hamaguri/ ‘clam’ is etymologically a compound of /hama/ ‘beach’ and /kuri/ ‘chestnut’, and the corresponding word in Yamagata has prenasalization: [hamɑ̃ᵑgɨɾi].
However, a compound newly coined within a Yamagata dialect apparently will lack rendaku, as will a transparent compound borrowed from the Tokyo dialect.
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An example of what is probably a borrowing is the word corresponding to Tokyo /te+gami/ ‘letter’ (cf. /te/ ‘hand’ and /kami/ ‘paper’).
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An example of what is probably a borrowing is the word corresponding to Tokyo /te+gami/ ‘letter’ (cf. /te/ ‘hand’ and /kami/ ‘paper’).
The Yamagata word is pronounced [teɡɑmi], not [tẽᵑgɑmi].
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Needless to say, the situation in Yamagata is complicated by the strong influence of the Tokyo dialect (so-called “standardization”), which has intensified since the mid-20th century.
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Needless to say, the situation in Yamagata is complicated by the strong influence of the Tokyo dialect (so-called “standardization”), which has intensified since the mid-20th century.
This influence may well be indirect, of course, with “standard” forms diffusing not straight from Tokyo itself but via other urban centers (especially Yamagata City).
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In any case, many vocabulary items allow alternative pronunciations.
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In any case, many vocabulary items allow alternative pronunciations.
For example, the Yamagata word corresponding to Tokyo /mi+goto/ ‘wonderful’ (lit. ‘something to see’; cf. /mi/ ‘seeing’ and /koto/ ‘thing’) can be either [mĩᵑgodo] (which in this case feels old-fashioned to native Yamagata speakers) or [miɡodo] (without prenasalization).
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The name of the prefecture shows the same kind of variation:
[ jɑmɑɡɑdɑ]~[ jɑmɑ̃ᵑgɑdɑ] 山形
“old-fashioned” È
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[ᵐb b p h]
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Yamagata examples corresponding to Tokyo words with /b/ are of particular interest.
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Yamagata examples corresponding to Tokyo words with /b/ are of particular interest.
As we mentioned earlier, in the Tokyo dialect, rendaku pairs /h/ (< OJ [p]) with /b/.
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For example:
/hana/ /beni+bana/ ‘flower’ ‘safflower’
花 紅花
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For example:
/hana/ /beni+bana/ ‘flower’ ‘safflower’
花 紅花
Safflowers, used to make rouge (/beni/), are not native to Japan, but they were an important product in the pre-modern Yamagata economy.
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The corresponding Yamagata words are:
[hɑnɑ] [beɲibɑnɑ] ‘flower’ ‘safflower’
花 紅花
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The corresponding Yamagata words are:
[hɑnɑ] [beɲibɑnɑ] ‘flower’ ‘safflower’
花 紅花
Note the absence of prenasalization in the compound: [beɲibɑnɑ].
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It is possible that this Yamagata word for ‘safflower’ used to have prenasalization and lost it, as seems to have happened in the case of [miɡodo] ‘wonderful’.
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It is possible that this Yamagata word for ‘safflower’ used to have prenasalization and lost it, as seems to have happened in the case of [miɡodo] ‘wonderful’.
But even if it was borrowed recently, the explanation for [b] is essentially the same: assimilation to the “standard”.
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Notice that the medial [b] in Yamagata [beɲibɑnɑ] cannot be the result of “undoing” rendaku in a transparent compound.
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Notice that the medial [b] in Yamagata [beɲibɑnɑ] cannot be the result of “undoing” rendaku in a transparent compound.
Undoing rendaku would give us [h], not [b].
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There is a three-way [h]≠[p]≠[b] contrast in word-intial position in Yamagata, just as there is in Tokyo.
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There is a three-way [h]≠[p]≠[b] contrast in word-intial position in Yamagata, just as there is in Tokyo.
But Yamagata has a four-way [h]≠[p]≠[b]≠[ᵐb] contrast word-medially.
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For example, word-initially:
[hɑsɨ] cf. Tokyo /haši/ ‘chopsticks’
[pɑpɑ] cf. Tokyo /papa/ ‘daddy’
[bɑgɑ] cf. Tokyo /baka/ ‘fool’
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And word-medially:
[sɨohɑ̃mˑɑ] cf. Tokyo /šio+hama/ ‘salt flat’
[piɾipiɾi] cf. Tokyo /piri+piri/ ‘spicy’
[ jɑmɑbigo] cf. Tokyo /yama+biko/ ‘echo’
[dẽ̃ᵐbeso] cf. Tokyo /de+beso/ ‘protruding navel’
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Typical descriptions of Tōhoku dialects imply that a word-initial voiceless stop and the corresponding word-medial voiced stop are realizations of the same phoneme:
[toɾi] ‘bird’
/tori/ [mɑdo] ‘target’
/mato/
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Such descriptions also imply that a word-initial voiced stop and the corresponding word-medial prenasalized stop are realizations of the same phoneme:
[doɾo] ‘mud’
/doro/ [mɑ̃ⁿdo] ‘window’
/mado/
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However, our native-speaking co-author has the intuition that initial [b] and medial [b] are the same phoneme:
[beɲibɑnɑ] ‘safflower’
/benibana/
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Needless to say, this intuition about [b] casts doubt on the usual assumption that initial [t k] are realizations of the same phonemes as medial [d ɡ].
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Consider the pronunciation of typical Sino-Japanese binoms:
[doːɾo] [kɑidoː]
[ɡɑɡɨseː] [dɑiɡɑɡɨ]
道路 街道 ‘road’
‘student’ ‘university’
‘highway’
学生 大学
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The point is that we need a synchronic analysis of the phonological system of our co-author’s Yamagata dialect before we can decide what counts as rendaku.
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The point is that we need a synchronic analysis of the phonological system of our co-author’s Yamagata dialect before we can decide what counts as rendaku.
The analysis of this dialect, and any other dialect for that matter, needs to abandon the presupposition that the “underlying” system is just like Tokyo Japanese.
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It is also necessary to resist the temptation to think that all Tōhoku dialects are pretty much the same.
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It is also necessary to resist the temptation to think that all Tōhoku dialects are pretty much the same.
As we mentioned earlier, there is significant diversity even within Yamagata Prefecture.
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Why Is It So Hard?
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First of all, there are phonetic details in our co-author’s Yamagata dialect that require careful consideration.
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One is that prenasalization seems to have developed into a moraic nasal in some words:
[kɑmɑ̃ᵐbogo] 蒲鉾 ‘fish paste’
Tokyo /kamaboko/
[bɑm̃ːbɑ] 婆 ‘grandma’
Tokyo /baba/
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In fact, we know of one case in which a the same etymological source has developed into two separate words:
[kɑ̃ᵑge] 影 ‘shadow’
[kɑŋ̃ːge] 陰 ‘shade; behind’ Tokyo
/kage/
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In fact, we know of one case in which a the same etymological source has developed into two separate words:
[kɑ̃ᵑge] 影 ‘shadow’
[kɑŋ̃ːge] 陰 ‘shade; behind’ Tokyo
/kage/
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Another is that some nasals corresponding to Tokyo syllable-initial nasals are longer than others, and these longer nasals make the preceding vowel nasal:
靴紐 ‘shoestring’
Tokyo /kucu+himo/
[otoɕɨme] 乙姫 ‘maiden’
Tokyo /oto+hime/
[kɨdzɨɕɨmˑo] ˷
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It could be that our co-author’s dialect has developed a phonemic distinction between nasal and oral vowels:
紐 ‘string’
[ɕɨme] 姫 ?/hɨme/
[tẽᵐbɨɡɨɾo] 手袋 ‘glove’
?/tẽbɨgɨro/
[tɑmɑdebɑɡo] 玉手箱 ‘treasure chest’
?/tamadebago/
?/hɨmo/ ˷
[ɕɨmˑo] ˷ ‘princess’
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It could be that our co-author’s dialect has developed a phonemic distinction between nasal and oral vowels:
紐 ‘string’
[ɕɨme] 姫 ?/hɨme/
[tẽᵐbɨɡɨɾo] 手袋 ‘glove’
?/tẽbɨgɨro/
[tɑmɑdebɑɡo] 玉手箱 ‘treasure chest’
?/tamadebago/
?/hɨmo/ ˷
[ɕɨmˑo] ˷ ‘princess’
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A second source of difficulty is the problem of how to model the phonological system of a bi-dialectal speaker.
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A second source of difficulty is the problem of how to model the phonological system of a bi-dialectal speaker.
It is well-known that the languages of bilingual speakers influence each other to some degree even when the two languages are not related or typologically similar.
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Surely this kind of mutual influence is even more profound in the case of two dialects, especially when one is a “standard” variety of a national language.
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Surely this kind of mutual influence is even more profound in the case of two dialects, especially when one is a “standard” variety of a national language.
Notions such as “co-existent phonemic systems” and “co-phonologies” have been around for more than half a century.
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Furthermore, a bi-dialectal speaker does not have just two discrete varieties.
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Furthermore, a bi-dialectal speaker does not have just two discrete varieties.
Instead, he or she controls a continuum that ranges from near-“standard” to something much closer to a “pure” traditional variety.
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Furthermore, a bi-dialectal speaker does not have just two discrete varieties.
Instead, he or she controls a continuum that ranges from near-“standard” to something much closer to a “pure” traditional variety.
The situation is no different in principle from the notion of a “post-creole continuum”.
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When an un-prenasalized, word-medial voiced stop in Yamagata corresponds to a voiced stop in Tokyo, it is tempting to handle it as a kind of unassimilated or only partially assimilated loanword.
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When an un-prenasalized, word-medial voiced stop in Yamagata corresponds to a voiced stop in Tokyo, it is tempting to handle it as a kind of unassimilated or only partially assimilated loanword.
This temptation is strengthened by the fact that some more transparent compounds have prenasalization, while some less transparent compounds lack it.
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For example:
[te] 手 ‘hand’
[ɸɨgɨɾo] 袋 ‘bag’
[tẽᵐbɨgɨɾo] 手袋 ‘glove’
[me] 目 ‘eye’
[ɸɨdɑ] 蓋 ‘lid’
[mɑbɨdɑ] 瞼 ‘eyelid’ È È
native Tokyo-influenced
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Of course, as we have already seen, the influence of Tokyo is not confined to straightforward cases of borrowing (i.e., the replacement of a Yamagata word with a Tokyo word).
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Of course, as we have already seen, the influence of Tokyo is not confined to straightforward cases of borrowing (i.e., the replacement of a Yamagata word with a Tokyo word).
A Tokyo word can influence the pronunciation of a Yamagata cognate, as in the case of innovative [ jɑmɑgɑdɑ] pushing out old-fashioned [ jɑmɑ̃ᵑgɑdɑ].
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Although our co-author pronounces the word meaning ‘eyelid’ as [mɑbɨdɑ], without prenasalization, she remembers her grandfather saying [mɑ̃ᵐbɨdɑ], so this is presumably not a case of simple borrowing.
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Conclusion
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It has often been suggested that the overall frequency of rendaku differs from dialect to dialect, but we know of no solid evidence to support this claim.
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It has often been suggested that the overall frequency of rendaku differs from dialect to dialect, but we know of no solid evidence to support this claim.
When it comes to rendaku in Tōhoku dialects, obviously we cannot investigate how frequent rendaku is until we determine what (if anything) counts as rendaku.
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This problem promises to keep us busy for some time to come.
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