This paper attempts to describe the phonological component of a generative grammar of Japanese. The phonological component is an input-output device, the input into which is a sequence of morphemes generated by the syntactic component and the output a sequence of phones with the pitch contour.
Three different kinds of accent marks are employed in order to prescribe the accent pattern of a concatenated word group.
Rules (R 1)-(R 13) rewrite grammatical formatives as a sequence of phonological symbols.
Rules (R 14)-(R 35) convert phonological symbols and boundary elements into phonemes.
Rules (R 36)-(R 44) determine the word accent.
Rules (R 45)-(R 46) deal with the devocalization of vowels.
Rules (R 47)-(R 54) give the pitch contour.
Some rules in the syntactic component are also discussed.
