Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2020/03
Author : Takahashi Toyomi
This study forms part of an ongoing research program to build a restrictive model of representation. This model assumes that phonological entities are mapped onto the acoustic signal according to the dependency/licensing relations they hold in representation, its aim being to eliminate the need to specify the linear ordering of segments within syllabic constituents. The focus of this work is to extend the scope of the model to entire syllables, thereby unifying the onset and the nucleus into a single component, a set of phonological primes. To achieve this, the present study calls for a refinement of two types of relational properties holding among the primes—namely, endocentric dependency and exocentric dependency—in such a way that they determine the simultaneous/successive mapping of phonological entities onto the signal. It is also necessary to revise the theory of primes, phonological elements, so that computation of the mapping is more precisely defined.