Timothy J Vance
Biographic Data
| ID | 102555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy J Vance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Vance |
| SIGNATURE | VANCE T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | NINJAL (emeritus) , Honolulu , HI , USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4915-6765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A misleading syllable-based generalization about Japanese SJ+/zu/ compounds
In 1910, Ogura Shinpei published a meticulous critique of Benjamin Smith Lyman’s famous 1894 article on rendaku . In the course of a thorough examination of compounds consisting of a single Sino-Japanese morpheme followed by /su/∼/zu/ ‘to do’, Ogura noted that all the examples with rendaku (i.e., with /zu/) have a monosyllabic first element. This observation invites the inference that there is a causal connection between first-element monosyllabi…
The diachronic origins of Lyman's Law
Modern Japanese has a set of morphophonemic alternations known collectively as rendaku that involve initial consonants in second elements of compounds, as in /jama+dera/ ‘mountain temple’ (cf. /tera/ ‘temple’). An alternating element like /tera/ ~ /dera/ has an initial voiced obstruent in its rendaku allomorph and an initial voiceless obstruent in its non-rendaku allomorph. Lyman's Law blocks rendaku in a second element containing a medial voiced…
Rendaku
Rendaku in inflected words
Final accent vs. no accent
The Organization of Japanese Prosody
Linguistic Anthropology
An Introduction to Japanese Phonology
The Japanese Language through Time
Japanese Tone Structure
"Canadian Raising" in Some Dialects of the Northern United States
T HE PRONUNCIATION OF ONTARIO ENGLISH, according to Joos (1942, 141) is nearly identical to that of GENERAL AMERICAN. He notes only two differences of any consequence, and his discussion focuses on one of these, namely the existence of two variants for the diphthongs /ay/ and /aw/ in Ontario. As Joos describes it, the basic Canadian pattern is that these diphthongs have higher starting points before voiceless consonants than in other environments…
The etymology of kami
MANY authors w r it in g in English on Japanese re lig ion or cu ltu re have attem pted to explain the meaning of the word kam i 神 to readers in some d e ta il. The obvious reason fo r th is is tha t English transla tions such as "god " or "d e ity " are lik e ly to be m isleading unless supplemented by some such exp lanation. In the past i t was not unusual fo r such explanations to include in fo rm ation about the etymology of the word in the h…
On the Origin of Voicing Alteration in Japanese Consonants
A largely unpredictable consonant alternation phenomenon known as RENDAKU has been a feature of Japanese throughout its recorded history. A hypothesis mentioned by Unger (1975) attributes the origin of rendaku to vowel elision and nasal absorption in prehistoric Japanese. The evidence for this hypothesis is considered in detail, and the unpredictability of rendaku is attributed to irregularity in its origin. The rarity of rendaku in compound verb…
The psychological status of a constraint on Japanese consonant alternation
"Canadian Raising" in Some Dialects of the Northern United States
T HE PRONUNCIATION OF ONTARIO ENGLISH, according to Joos (1942, 141) is nearly identical to that of GENERAL AMERICAN. He notes only two differences of any consequence, and his discussion focuses on one of these, namely the existence of two variants for the diphthongs /ay/ and /aw/ in Ontario. As Joos describes it, the basic Canadian pattern is that these diphthongs have higher starting points before voiceless consonants than in other environments…
The psychological status of a constraint on Japanese consonant alternation
Final accent vs. no accent
The psychological status of a constraint on Japanese consonant alternation
On the Origin of Voicing Alteration in Japanese Consonants
A largely unpredictable consonant alternation phenomenon known as RENDAKU has been a feature of Japanese throughout its recorded history. A hypothesis mentioned by Unger (1975) attributes the origin of rendaku to vowel elision and nasal absorption in prehistoric Japanese. The evidence for this hypothesis is considered in detail, and the unpredictability of rendaku is attributed to irregularity in its origin. The rarity of rendaku in compound verb…
The etymology of kami
MANY authors w r it in g in English on Japanese re lig ion or cu ltu re have attem pted to explain the meaning of the word kam i 神 to readers in some d e ta il. The obvious reason fo r th is is tha t English transla tions such as "god " or "d e ity " are lik e ly to be m isleading unless supplemented by some such exp lanation. In the past i t was not unusual fo r such explanations to include in fo rm ation about the etymology of the word in the h…
"Canadian Raising" in Some Dialects of the Northern United States
T HE PRONUNCIATION OF ONTARIO ENGLISH, according to Joos (1942, 141) is nearly identical to that of GENERAL AMERICAN. He notes only two differences of any consequence, and his discussion focuses on one of these, namely the existence of two variants for the diphthongs /ay/ and /aw/ in Ontario. As Joos describes it, the basic Canadian pattern is that these diphthongs have higher starting points before voiceless consonants than in other environments…
The Japanese Language through Time
Japanese Tone Structure
An Introduction to Japanese Phonology
Linguistic Anthropology
The Organization of Japanese Prosody
Final accent vs. no accent
Rendaku in inflected words
Rendaku
The diachronic origins of Lyman's Law
Modern Japanese has a set of morphophonemic alternations known collectively as rendaku that involve initial consonants in second elements of compounds, as in /jama+dera/ ‘mountain temple’ (cf. /tera/ ‘temple’). An alternating element like /tera/ ~ /dera/ has an initial voiced obstruent in its rendaku allomorph and an initial voiceless obstruent in its non-rendaku allomorph. Lyman's Law blocks rendaku in a second element containing a medial voiced…
A misleading syllable-based generalization about Japanese SJ+/zu/ compounds
In 1910, Ogura Shinpei published a meticulous critique of Benjamin Smith Lyman’s famous 1894 article on rendaku . In the course of a thorough examination of compounds consisting of a single Sino-Japanese morpheme followed by /su/∼/zu/ ‘to do’, Ogura noted that all the examples with rendaku (i.e., with /zu/) have a monosyllabic first element. This observation invites the inference that there is a causal connection between first-element monosyllabi…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · History (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Speech and dialogue systems (3 works)