連声
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Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 連 | 声 |
| れん Grade: 4 |
しょう > じょう Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi | goon |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 連聲 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
Compound of 連 (ren, “connect”) and 声 (shō, “voice”). The shō changes to jō as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- 連濁 (rendaku)
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN