caa a22 4500 475756606 CHVBK 20180406123539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008367619295 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008367619295 Hamano Shoko Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The George Washington University, 801 22nd Street, N.W., 20052, Washington, DC, U.S.A. aut Voicing of Obstruents in Old Japanese: Evidence from the Sound-Symbolic Stratum [Elektronische Daten] [Shoko Hamano] It is standard view in Japanese historical linguistics that voicing of obstruents in Old through Early Middle Japanese (c. 700-1200) was contrastive although largely limited to intervocalic position. However, Wenck (1959), Hayata (1977), and Takayama (1993) question this view by raising the possibility that early Japanese had only non-contrastive voicing of intervocalic obstruents. On this account, "voiced" and "voiceless" obstruents in intervocalic position were distinguished purely on the basis of prenasalization rather than voicing in early Japanese; the well-known weakening process of intervocalic /p/, which is commonly summarized as *p > *Φ > w, is recast as *p > *b > *β > w. This dissenting view is in fact more consistent with various sound change phenomena from Middle to Modern Japanese. This paper presents a novel piece of evidence from the sound-symbolic stratum which supports the view of Wenck, Hayata, and Takayama. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/3(2000-07-01), 207-225 0925-8558 9:3<207 2000 9 10831 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008367619295 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008367619295 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hamano Shoko Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The George Washington University, 801 22nd Street, N.W., 20052, Washington, DC, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of East Asian Linguistics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/3(2000-07-01), 207-225 0925-8558 9:3<207 2000 9 10831 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer