連声
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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連 | 声 |
れん Grade: 4 |
しょう > じょう Grade: 2 |
on’yomi | goon |
Alternative spelling |
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連聲 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology edit
Compound of 連 (ren, “connect”) and 声 (shō, “voice”). The shō changes to jō as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
連声 • (renjō) ←れんじやう (renzyau)?
- (linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word, such as 天皇, whose pronunciation is not *ten’ō but tennō.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN