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Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Elisabeth M. de Boer
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 365] 2024
► pp. 129–130

Index

A
  • accent1, 13–18, 21, 39
  • Ainu (language)17, 112
  • assimilation43–45, 48–49, 64, 96, 117–118
  • atonic (lack of accent)13, 24, 37, 61, 79, 81, 86, 96–97
  • Azuma-uta4
B
  • back of JapanSee ura Nihon
  • Bantu (languages)16
  • Bumō-ki36
  • Burmese (language)17
C
  • centralization (of vowels)105
  • Chūrin (Tōkyō dialect subtype)2, 10–11, 22–23, 37, 48, 50, 53, 61, 66–68, 79, 81, 86, 96–97, 104, 108, 112, 118–119
    • emergence of42–45
  • compounds50–53
    • in modern dialects54–104
    • short-long53
    • short-short56–66
    • long-short67–86
  • concentric ring model8, 10–12
  • culminativity15
D
  • dialects, classiciation of4–12
  • DNASee genetics
E
  • even tone
    • in Late Middle Chinese27–30, 33–37, 43
    • in Japanese13, 32; see also light even tone
F
  • front of JapanSee omote Nihon
  • Fujiwara Yoichi9
G
  • Gairin (Tōkyō dialect subtype)2, 22–24, 66–68, 108, 111–113, 115–118
    • special properties of49–50
  • genetics112–115
  • going tone (Late Middle Chinese)27, 29–31, 33–36, 109
/
  • /H/ tone reduction40, 49, 112–115
  • Hattori Shirō6–7, 11, 27, 38
  • high vowel, centralization of105
I
  • Inner ringSee Nairin
  • innovation2, 6, 8, 10–11, 81, 103, 111, 117–119
    • spreading from Kyōtō48
    • responsible for Gairin dialects50
    • responsible for split of Gairin A and Gairin B68, 105–107, 113
    • common to Izumo and Tōhoku104
  • isoglosses5
  • Izumo (region)2, 8, 10, 104–114, 117–118
  • Izumo fudoki107
J
  • juncture16
K
  • Kagoshima (dialect group)1–3, 23–26, 33, 35–37, 50, 114–115, 118; see also Kyūshū
  • Kantō (region)8, 112–114
  • Kindaichi Haruhiko1, 9–11, 21–22, 27, 29–33, 35, 37, 43, 106, 117
  • kofun107, 111–112
  • Kojiki4, 106–110, 118
  • Kokin kunten-shō55
  • Kokin waka-shū45
  • Kokugo chōsa iinkai4
  • Konkōmyō saishōō-kyō ongi35
  • Koshi (region)106–109, 111, 113, 117
  • Kyōto (capital)106, 119
  • Kyōto (dialect group)1–2, 6–8, 10–11, 83–85
    • differences from Middle Japanese16–17, 27–28, 31, 33, 37
    • modern25–26, 39–41, 44–48
    • relative to proto-Japanese50–53, 67–68
  • Kyūshū (island)2, 4, 9–10, 14, 20, 23–24, 32, 48–49, 50, 68, 103–118
L
  • Late Middle Chinese27
  • leftward tone shift35, 39, 41, 46–47, 81
  • lengthening, of vowels42–43, 48, 118–119
  • light even tone (in Middle Chinese)27, 30, 33–36, 43
  • lowering, of initial /u/105
M
  • Man'yōshū4
  • Martin, Samuel E.1, 19
  • mergers
    • of tone classes2, 10, 12, 23, 33–34, 39, 42–50, 81, 86, 104–105, 108, 117–119
    • of vowels107, 111
  • mid-vowel raising105
  • Middle Japanese16–17, 27–30, 35–38, 40–41, 52–66
  • Middle Korean17
  • Middle ringSee Chūrin
  • migrations105–107
  • modern standard Japanase1
  • mora17
  • music111–112, 113–115
  • musical notation27–28, 30–32,
  • myths110–111
N
  • Nairin (Tōkyō dialect subtype)2, 10–11, 22–23, 35–37, 48, 50, 53, 68, 97, 104, 118–119
    • monosyllabic nouns in42–43
  • Nihon shoki (Nihongi)4, 35, 45
  • Noto (peninsula and island)11, 19, 21–22, 28, 41, 67, 104, 106–107, 111, 113, 117
  • Nozaki dialect21–22, 42–44
O
  • obligatoriness15
  • Old Japanese4
  • omote Nihon8–9, 106
  • Outer ringSee Gairin
  • oxytonic accent20, 37, 61
P
  • palatalization4, 105, 107
  • particles13, 20–22, 25, 30, 32, 34–37, 41–46, 48, 55, 60, 68, 96, 108, 117–119
  • pitch accent16–17
  • polarization42
  • proto-Japanese2, 11, 16, 27, 32, 39, 51–53, 104, 117
  • protonic accent26
R
  • raising (of mid vowels)105
  • Ramsey, S. Robert27–30, 47
  • register (phonological)17, 26
  • rising tone
    • in Late Middle Chinese27–31, 34, 36–37, 58, 109
    • in Japanese13, 25, 32
  • Ruiju myōgishō14, 28–29, 35
  • Ryūkyū (dialect group and islands)1–3, 23, 26, 32, 48, 106, 108, 115
S
  • Sanskrit14
  • Shingon (Buddhism)14, 27–28
  • Shūi waka-shū45
  • siddham script14
  • stress accent13
  • syllable17
T
  • Tendai (Buddhism)14, 28
  • Tōhoku (region)8, 10, 20, 68, 86, 97, 103–107, 111–118
  • Tōjō Misao5–7
  • Tōkyō (dialect group)1–3
    • modern19–23
    • pre-modern41–45
  • tone13–17
  • tone classes33–36, 38–42
  • tone dot notation28, 30–32, 24
  • tone systems16, 18–26, 16
  • Tsuzuku Tsuneo7–8
  • tumulusSee kofun
U
  • ura Nihon8–9, 106
W
  • Wada Minoru51–53, 68, 96–97, 103, 106
  • word melody23–25, 115–116
Y
  • Yamato (region)4, 106, 111
  • Yanagita Kunio10
  • Yayoi (archaeological period)106–107, 111–112, 117
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