This paper investigates the accent distributions of two-character Sino-Japanese words and truncated Sino-Japanese compounds, using data from unfamiliar word read-aloud tasks participated by Tokyo metropolitan dialect speakers. The results show that …
This paper analyzes the learnability of dominant accentual patterns of Sino-Japanese words and loanwords using the constraint ranking proposed by Li (2017) as the target grammar. Convergence results of computational simulations vary across algorithms …
Focusing on the distribution of accentual patterns in Sino-Japanese words, this paper mainly presents a standard Optimality-Theoretic analysis on the frequency asymmetry of Sino-Japanese words' accents, and compares it with loanwords' accentual …