A Glottochronological Study on Three Okinawan Dialects

Hattori, Shirô

doi:10.1086/464603

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“…B. Whitman 1985, unpublished PhD thesis); (ii) working out systematic sound correspondences based on the comparative method [26]; and (iii) consulting previously published cognate judgements in glottochronological studies on Japonic languages [27,28]. For example, there is a known systematic sound correspondence between Tokyo dialect /j/ and Yonaguni /d/.…”

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“…The wordlists for the rest of the Japonic languages and dialects were extracted from lexicons compiled by Hirayama [23,24]. [26]; and (iii) consulting previously published cognate judgements in glottochronological studies on Japonic languages [27,28]. For example, there is a known systematic sound correspondence between Tokyo dialect /j/ and Yonaguni /d/.…”

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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages

Lee

Hasegawa

2011

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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Languages, like genes, evolve by a process of descent with modification. This striking similarity between biological and linguistic evolution allows us to apply phylogenetic methods to explore how languages, as well as the people who speak them, are related to one another through evolutionary history. Language phylogenies constructed with lexical data have so far revealed population expansions of Austronesian, Indo-European and Bantu speakers. However, how robustly a phylogenetic approach can chart the history of language evolution and what language phylogenies reveal about human prehistory must be investigated more thoroughly on a global scale. Here we report a phylogeny of 59 Japonic languages and dialects. We used this phylogeny to estimate time depth of its root and compared it with the time suggested by an agricultural expansion scenario for Japanese origin. In agreement with the scenario, our results indicate that Japonic languages descended from a common ancestor approximately 2182 years ago. Together with archaeological and biological evidence, our results suggest that the first farmers of Japan had a profound impact on the origins of both people and languages. On a broader level, our results are consistent with a theory that agricultural expansion is the principal factor for shaping global linguistic diversity.

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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis supports an agricultural origin of Japonic languages

Lee

Hasegawa

2011

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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“…The phonological and (abstract) phonetic descriptions are typically couched in terms of a high vs. low binary status, using each mora as the accent-bearing unit. Hattori [1961] (and others following his work) used the accent kernel designated on a mora of a word to indicate a characteristic pitch change, in most dialects a sudden pitch drop, from the pertinent mora to the next. The kernel is given once, at most, for an accentual phrase (Fujimura [1966], McCawley [1968], Hayata [1997]).…”

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Pitch accent in Japanese: implementation by the c/d model

Fujimura

2008

Speech Prosody 2008

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In Tokyo Japanese, lexical accent is implemented by pitch pattern control, while phrasal stress patterns, along with pitch variation, convey non-lexical information in discourse. The C/D model represents pitch control by the tonal melody and stress control by the skeletal organization of the utterance. Phonetic implementation of pitch contours is exemplified here for different lexical accent patterns, including interphrasal interaction (catathesis). An example of phonetic variability is discussed. The issue of accentbearing units (syllable vs. mora) is revisited. A principle of nuclear prominence (PNP) is proposed explaining why pitch drops in the middle of an accented long syllable.

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