caa a22 4500 388058706 CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954394500001241 doi S0954394500001241 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954394500001241 Hattori Noriko Mie University Base transparency in suprasegmental changes: Ongoing changes in Japanese and English [Elektronische Daten] [Noriko Hattori] This article deals with suprasegmental changes in progress in Japanese and English and demonstrates that the same kind of mechanism is in operation. Data on realtime changes in pitch accent, collected by comparing earlier editions of Japanese pronouncing dictionaries with recent editions, are examined. Analysis of data from present-day speech provides supplementary data on innovative accent. Two types of principle for accent change are proposed: the demand for paradigm coherence and the demand for canonical accent pattern. In the case of nouns derived from adjectives, the two appear to be in conflict. It is suggested that in Japanese the demand for paradigm coherence is the stronger principle. Similar kinds of conflict between two possible types of change are observed in ongoing stress changes in English. It is shown that base (or stem) transparency is a major factor in determining the directionality of accent change. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998-07), 85-96 0954-3945 10:2<85 1998 10 LVC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001241 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394500001241 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hattori Noriko Mie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Variation and Change Cambridge University Press 10/2(1998-07), 85-96 0954-3945 10:2<85 1998 10 LVC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge