Project Name

The Japanese Lexicon: An Encyclopedia of Rendaku

Project Leader

Timothy J. Vance (Professor, Dept. of Linguistic Theory and Structure, NINJAL)

Meeting Dates and Times

June 4, 2011 (Saturday) 13:00 ~ 17:00
June 5, 2011 (Sunday) 9:00 ~ 12:00

Meeting Venue

Room A, Yamagata Terrsa
1-2-3 Futaba-chō, Yamagata City
Yamagata Prefecture 990-0828

Presenters and Presentation Titles

1. Atsushi Asai (Daidō University)

Rendaku kasho oyobi zenbu-yōso ni okeru yōhyō-sei no sayō-teido [The Degree of Markedness Operating at the Voicing Position and in the Preceding Element]

2. Mark Irwin (Yamagata University)

The Rendaku Database: A Mid-Term Report

3. James Low (Nagahama City Board of Education, Shiga Prefecture)

Solving the Nasal Paradox and Reevaluating Current Theories of Rendaku Mechanics

4. Kazutoshi Ohno (Guangzhou, China)

Thoughts on Rendaku Studies

5. Satoshi Ohta (Yamaguchi University)

4-mōra-go ni okeru rendaku [Rendaku in Four-Mora Words]

6. Toshiyuki Tabata (Chiba University)

PNV (Post Nasal Voicing) ni tsuite: Sōshi no furumai [On PNV (Post Nasal Voicing): The Behavior of Numbers]

7. Katsuo Tamaoka (Nagoya University)

Influence of Existing Rendaku Items on Voiced-or-Voiceless Determination of Neutral Items

8. Timothy J. Vance (NINJAL)

The Intractable Problem of Rendaku in Sino-Japanese