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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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.