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"abstract": "Han (1994) argues that moms are isochronous units, but no inference is drawn for isochrony regarding the length of the syllable in Japanese. As the tempo of speech increases, however, the phonetic reality of moms seems to become less obvious (Beckman 1982 and Larish 1989). This paper provides a new insight on the apparent gap between phonology and phonetics, which comes from the distinction between Initial Foot Parsing (IFP) and Surface Foot Parsing (SFP). Moreover, it emphasizes an important consideration of timing units larger than moms.",
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"text": "Han (1994) argues that moms are isochronous units, but no inference is drawn for isochrony regarding the length of the syllable in Japanese. As the tempo of speech increases, however, the phonetic reality of moms seems to become less obvious (Beckman 1982 and Larish 1989). This paper provides a new insight on the apparent gap between phonology and phonetics, which comes from the distinction between Initial Foot Parsing (IFP) and Surface Foot Parsing (SFP). Moreover, it emphasizes an important consideration of timing units larger than moms.",
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"text": "Moms are traditionally considered to be abstract units, but ones that play a crucial role in Japanese phonology (Bloch 1950 , Hockett 1955 , and Ladefoged 1982 . Japanese poetry is often cited as proof that the mora is a psychological unit. Haiku, consisting of three lines Of five, seven, and five onsetsu, is one form of Japanese poetry. Onsetsu is often translated as 'syllables' in some of the Japanese literature, but this is a mistranslation. If the syllables are all light, as in (la), the syllable count and the mora count agree as to the onsetsu. But in (1b), the onsetsu of the poetry coincides with the mora count, but not the syllable count. (1) a. Onsetsu Vance (1987) argues for the indispensable psychological reality of the mora. He notes that when a glottal stop follows word endings in /Vi/, as in an accented word like /hail 'yes', the vowel sequence squeezes into a single mora. This point is schematized as follows. After the two vowels are squeezed into a single morn to make a diphthong at a rapid speech style, the stranded mora is realized as a glottal stop to maintain its durational tempo. Han's (1994) phonetic experiment shows evidence to determine the acoustic correlates of mora timing. The mora, therefore, is accepted by many Japanese scholars as psychological units in Japanese. However, it should be noted that some scholars (Beckman 1982 and Larish 1987 ) deny the phonetic reality of the mora in Japanese.",
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"text": "When western scholars first introduced the concept of the syllable, many Japanese scholars did not accept it as a phonological unit in Japanese. Currently, the vast majority of Japanese scholars accept the notion of mora as a psychological unit, but the role of syllables in Japanese is still under debate. In general, some scholars accept the syllable as a unit in standard Japanese mainly for the following reasons: if the syllable is defined as the accentbearing unit, some cases of accent assignment for loanwords or nonsense words can be accounted for in a very general way (McCawley 1968) . Generally, the accent for loanwords is assigned on the antepenultimate mora (the third mora from the end), as in (3a). For some other loanwords, the accent is assigned on the fourth mora from the end of a word, as in (3b). With the concept of the syllable, the accent-assignment rule is formulated more simply and accurately by making reference to the syllable that contains the antepenultimate mora.",
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"text": "a. makudontindo 'MacDonald's' pairOtto 'pilot' sutordiki 'strike' b. \u2022 bakiesyoN 'vacation' koNpyziutaa 'computer' dimiNsyoN 'dimension'",
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"text": "McCawley's accent-assignment rule, however, fails to account for the accent position of some other loanwords. I will return to this issue in section 7.",
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"text": "Under the traditional view of the internal structure of the syllable, this phonological constituent is composed of an onset, a nucleus, and a coda. For Hockett (1955) , a nucleus is an obligatory member of the unit. The nucleus and the coda form a unit called a rhyme, as in (4). By showing that the onset-rhyme boundary in English is a significant switching point, these errors provide evidence of the onset, or rhyme, as a unit. At least, the onset is a single unit.",
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"text": "In Japanese, however, Kubozono (1989) shows that neither the onset itself, nor the rhyme, plays a significant role. Katada 's paper shows that while the adults' group is orthography-oriented, the children's group is sound-oriented. However, it is very clear that the onset and the nucleus are treated as a single unit and the coda is treated as an independent unit by both groups.",
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"text": "Furthermore, the breakdown into the onset-nucleus, or the coda, in Japanese is confirmed on phonetic grounds. While the lengthening of a vowel before a voiced consonant occurs in English (Chen 1970) , in Japanese a preceding segment plays a crucial role for the duration of a vowel in word-medial position in Japanese (Takeda et al. 1989) . This suggests that the preceding segment must be closer to the nucleus than the coda in Japanese.",
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"text": "Thus, past studies such as Kubozono (1989) , Katada (1990) , and Ito et al. (1992) treat moras as subconstituents of syllables in Japanese, as in (7b), as opposed to the representation in (7a), which is often considered as the universal syllable structure. The lower-case 'a' is used to refer to a syllables, and the mu '\u00b5' to a mora. ",
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"text": "The representation in (7b) clearly shows that the nucleus and the onset are tied up together in a single unit and the coda is independent from the rest. It seems very appropriate for Japanese syllable structure. However, it falsely indicates that the onset and the nucleus form a mora as a single unit. Hayes (1995) states that no language assigns moraic values to onset consonants. I will return to this issue in section 6.",
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"text": "The emergence of the notion of mora under theories of metrical phonology stems from the mora concept of the Prague School that gives weight to syllables (Trubetzkoy 1969 ). Thus, a light syllable is defined as consisting of one mora and a heavy syllable as consisting of two moras. In other words, moras are considered to be subconstituents of syllables. Recently, in the literature dealing with the concept of prosodic hierarchy in Japanese, prosodic syllables have been discussed. While Kubozono (1989) , Katada (1990) The representations in (10) are labeled moraic trochees in the foot typology of Hayes (1995) . His metrical stress theory focuses on stress languages, based on the earlier proposition (Jakobson 1931 ) that the stress-bearing unit is the syllable. Thus, it claims that feet are built on syllables in all stress languages, and moras as weight units are subconstituents of syllables.",
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"text": "When we posit moraic trochees, in which moras are subconstituents of syllables, we face up to a problem. Consider the following two syllable internal structures. Hyman (1985) , Katada (1990) , and Ito et al. (1992) , in which the onset belongs to the first mora, as in (1 lb). The representation in (11a) seems more preferable for English because the onset is treated as an independent unit. The representation in (1 lb) seems appropriate for Japanese because the onset and the nucleus are treated as a single unit. However, the representation in (11a) does not comply with the theory of prosodic hierarchy (Selkirk 1980 , Ito 1986 , and Hayes 1990), which requires that every prosodic element must be immediately dominated by a one-step higher prosodic element. In (11b), on the other hand, the onset is considered to be part of a mora, but in no language is a mora value assigned to an onset consonant, hence the 'paradox'. Levin (1985) extends the x-bar convention to phonology. She proposes that the syllable is the maximal projection (N\") of the single primitive category or nucleus (N). Based on her extended x-bar analysis, the traditional syllable structure in (7a) is represented as follows.",
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"text": "The syntactic terms, complement and specifier, are used to indicate distance relationships. That is, the complement has a closer relationship to the nucleus than the specifier. The traditional term, rhyme, is viewed as N'. The representation above shows that the nucleus and the complement are tied up together in a single unit, and the specifier is an independent unit.",
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"text": "The divorced syllables are freed into a separate hierarchy; yet the whole prosodic make-up of Japanese includes the syllable structure. I will illustrate the whole prosodic hierarchy of Japanese in section 8.",
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"text": "When the strictly binary moraic feet are constructed, stray moras may occur. One important question is how and when exhaustivity should be achieved when there are stray moms. Halle and Vergnaud (1987) argue that the exhaustivity condition should be respected in foot parsing. Exhaustivity may be satisfied by different types of operation. Kager (1993) argues that initial parsing feet and surface feet must be discussed at different levels. In other words, exhaustivity may be satisfied by parsing units into surface units and may be relaxed at the initial parsing level. Instead, the strict binarity requirement must be preserved at the initial parsing level, but the initial parsing allows stray moras. Along with these arguments, the bimoraic trochee in (14) can be defined as the initial foot as contrasted with the surface foot. While stray moras are allowed in Initial Foot Parsing (IFP), stray moras are adjoined in some way to achieve surface exhaustivity in Surface Foot Parsing (SFP). Furthermore, I include the idea that prosodic organization into a foot structure arises in the process of ongoing speech by complying with surface exhaustivity. IFP takes place right to left in Japanese and left to right in some other languages. However, based on the idea that footing occurs in ongoing speech, SFP should always take place from the beginning to the end of its domain, achieving surface exhaustivity. Levin (1988) reports that in Cahuilla foot parsing takes place from right to left after prefixation and from left to right after suffixation. If footing occurs in ongoing speech such bidirectionality is very peculiar. The distinction between IFP and SFP provides an explicit account of the bidirectionality. ",
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"text": "Following the discussion in section 5 for the syllable internal structures, the foot can be viewed as the maximal projection of the head mora marked by '+'. We then arrive at the following surface foot structures for Japanese and Fijian, based on the representations in (19) . Each hierarchical foot structure above is viewed as the maximal projection of the head element marked by '+'. It clearly shows that the complement (obligatory) is closer to the head than the specifier (optional). Moreover, it is more constrained than the flat representations in (19) in the sense that only strictly binary branching is allowed at each level. This strict binarity is parallel to the labels S (strong) and W (weak), which are relationally defined in major metrical theories. Another parallelism is that in both the syllable-based and the foot-based analyses, the specifier either precedes or follows the head, depending on the language. The surface foot structures in (21) predict that non-initial stray moras are only allowed to be associated with the specifier position (a right branch) of the preceding foot in Japanese and stray moms are with the specifier position (a left branch) of the following foot in Fijian.",
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"text": "McCawley's accent -assignment rule fails to account for the following loanwords. The accent does not fall on the syllable containing the antepenultimate morn. (22) Exceptions In Surface Foot Parsing (11 .1)), stray moras are incorporated under the surface ternary foot structure achieving surface exhaustivity. If we assume that the right-peripheral bimoraic foot is extrametrical, as in (23b-i) and (23c-i), their accent patterns are accounted in a unified manner. That is, accent is assigned to the head of the final visible foot. As in (23a-i), if a stray mora intervenes between it and the word boundary, the final foot is not peripheral, and the foot extrametricality is then blocked by the Peripherality Condition (Hayes 1995) . The '+' on the right-peripheral top of the existing '+' in (23ii) indicates the accent position of the loanwords.",
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"content": "<table><tr><td colspan=\"3\">(8) Prosodic Syllables in Japanese</td><td/><td/></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">a. Light Syllable</td><td colspan=\"3\">b. Heavy Syllable</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>a</td><td/><td>a / \\</td></tr><tr><td>(9)</td><td>original names</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">TruncatedNames</td><td>Mora-count</td><td>Syllable-count</td></tr><tr><td/><td>a. ina+ba</td><td>-9.</td><td>inatyaN</td><td/><td>2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td/><td>b. yama+kosi</td><td>-3.</td><td>yamatyaN</td><td/><td>2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td/><td>c. ka+too</td><td>--a.</td><td>katotyaN</td><td/><td>2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td/><td>d. koN+doo</td><td>-4.</td><td>koNtyaN</td><td/><td>2</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td/><td>e. iti+no</td><td>-9.</td><td colspan=\"2\">itityaN 1 ittyaN</td><td>2</td><td>21 1</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"4\">(10) Prosodic Foot in Japanese (Moraic Trochees)</td><td/></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">a. koto 'Japanese harp'</td><td colspan=\"2\">b. koN 'navy blue'</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">I / \\ a a</td><td>I I a</td><td/></tr><tr><td/><td>I</td><td>I</td><td>/</td><td>n</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>IA</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td/><td>II I</td><td>lit</td><td/><td/></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">ko to</td><td>ko</td><td>N</td></tr><tr><td/><td>B</td><td>L</td><td>El</td><td>L</td></tr></table>",
"text": ", andIto et al. (1992) provide insightful accounts for the syllable-internal structure in the language, they all maintain that moras are subconstituents of syllables, as in(8).If Japanese feet are bimoraic, each foot contains the same number of moras, but not necessarily the same number of syllables. In other words, a bimoraic foot may consist of one or two syllables, regardless of accent position, as shown in (10). The upper-case sigma T indicates an isochronous unit called a foot. A high-tone (H) or low-tone (L) is linked to a mora.",
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"content": "<table><tr><td>a.</td><td>herikoputaa</td><td>'helicopter'</td></tr><tr><td>b.</td><td>arerugii</td><td>'allergy'</td></tr><tr><td>c.</td><td>orifindritii</td><td>'originality'</td></tr><tr><td>d</td><td>refisutaa</td><td>'register'</td></tr><tr><td>e.</td><td>dir ekutaa</td><td>'director'</td></tr><tr><td>f.</td><td>akdodioN</td><td>'accordion'</td></tr><tr><td>g.</td><td>resipusyoN</td><td/></tr></table>",
"text": "to McCawley's Accent-Assignment Rule",
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