Alderete, John D. 1999 Morphologically Governed Accent in Optimality Theory　ノ　ニホンゴ　ノ　アクセント　ノ　ブンセキ　ノ　モンダイテン

Alderete offered an analysis of Tokyo Japanese accent based on Optimality Theory with new anti-faithfulness constraints. He classified Japanese accent into Rootconditioned Accent and Affix-conditioned Accent. The former type accent is recessive and the latter type accent is divided into dominant I (shift type) and dominant 2. He also classified accent into two types; Pre-accenting and Post-accenting depending on the notion of Edge effect, which he claims to be universal. This is based on the assumption that accent bearing unit is a syllable. The analysis requires tremendous amount of constraints, the whole ranking of which is not clearly mentioned, although partial ranking is given separately. It is often the case that the definition of the constraint is ambiguous and hard to assess correctly. The category of Prosodic Compound become necessary besides Prosodic Word due to the division of Pre-and Post-accenting. As far as the data he showed is concerned, the analysis seems to be successful, but accentual variation is completely ignored and analysis covers only limited domain of the accent. Rule-based analysis with only several rules is much simpler and requires no special assumptions.研究論文Article