Japanese /r/ is not feature-less: A rejoinder to Labrune (2014)

Labrune (2014) argues that Japanese /r/ is structurally empty. This reply points out that the phonological characteristics of /r/ which are discussed by Labrune (2014) come with many systematic exceptions, and hence they are better modeled by violable constraints. To illustrate how violable constrai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kawahara Shigeto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-06-01
Series:Open Linguistics
Subjects:
/r/
Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2015-0011/opli-2015-0011.xml?format=INT