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SUMMARY:Variation in moraicity in Japanese text-setting - Rebecca Starr
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:Text-setting\, the pairing of language and music\, is largely 
 determined by a language’s most salient prosodic units (Yung 1991\; Hall
 e and Lerdahl 1993\; Hayes 2009\; a.o.). Japanese\, which exhibits a domin
 antly moraic prosodic structure\, is predicted to have a mora-based text-s
 etting system (Hayes and Swiger 2008). The present study of translated Dis
 ney songs and native anime songs finds that\, while mora-based text-settin
 g is the default in Japanese\, non-moraic variants are common\, particular
 ly in loan words and translation contexts. The results offer evidence towa
 rds the hypothesis that the differences in moraicity in Japanese partially
  stem from phonological differences present across Japanese lexical strata
  (Itô and Mester 1995).
LOCATION:Keynes Seminar Room 1\, King's College\, Cambridge
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