研究ノート
熊本県八代市坂本町上深水方言に観察されるアクセント単位の拡張現象
キーワード:
two-pattern accent,
N-pattern accent,
the Kamifukami dialect,
bunsetsu,
expansion of an accentual unit
2018 年 22 巻 3 号 p. 17-28
詳細
2018 年 22 巻 3 号 p. 17-28
The Kamifukami dialect spoken in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, has a two-pattern accent system. Among the two-pattern accent systems in Kyushu, bunsetsu obligatorily serves as an accentual unit and, except in a few cases, the “expansion of an accentual unit,” where a single accent pattern spans over two or more bunsetsu, has not been observed. However, this study reveals that the Kamifukami dialect exhibits the expansion of an accentual unit in a wider range of environments than other dialects. It also confirms that a two-pattern system in this dialect is typologically unusual because bunsetsu does not necessarily function as an accentual unit.
