{"pk":49004,"title":"Arisaka's Law and the Phonemic Analysis of Old Japanese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Some phonemic analyses of Old Japanese (OJ) include contrasts between consonant+vowel (CV) syllables and consonant+glide+vowel (CGV) syllables, where G is OJ/y/ or OJ/w/. For example, some scholars transcribe OJ with a contrast between OJ/Co/ and OJ/Cwo/. Arisaka’s Law is a set of cooccurrence restrictions on OJ syllables within a root, and in an analysis that incorporates this contrast between OJ/Co/ and OJ/Cwo/, Arisaka’s Law prohibits roots containing both OJ/Co/ and OJ/Cwo/. OJ also allowed glide+vowel (GV) syllables, including OJ/wo/, and it is natural to assume that OJ/wo/ in a GV syllable is phonemically the same as OJ/wo/ in a CGV syllable. If so, Arisaka’s Law predicts that the GV syllable OJ/wo/ should not occur in a root that also contains a CV syllable of the form OJ/Co/, but this prediction is false. This contradiction prompts consideration of alternative phonemic analyses that do not include OJ/Cwo/ syllables.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s82s82w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vance","name_suffix":"","institution":"NINJAL","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-14T19:46:47.380000-07:00","date_accepted":"2025-07-15T13:01:41.375000-07:00","date_published":"2025-07-07T03:00:00-07:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/49004/galley/36953/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/49004/galley/36953/download/"}]}