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Publication details [#56604]

Kawahara, Shigeto. 2012. Lyman's Law is active in loanwords and nonce words: Evidence from naturalness judgment studies. Lingua 122 (11) : 1193–1206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

judgment | loanword | morpheme | nonsense | phonological change

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that Lyman's Law, a general phonotactic restriction in Japanese which prohibits two voiced obstruents within the same morpheme, functions both as blocker and trigger of phonological alternations and affects native speakers’ treatment of loanwords and nonce words.