Syllable Theory in Prosodic Phonology

Since her dissertation, which developed a prosodic theory of the syllable, Junko Itô’s work has been concerned with constraint-based phonological theory, specifically with an optimality-theoretic model of phonology. One empirical focus of her research has been the morphophonemics and prosody of Japanese, including compound structures and their phonological form.

• 1. Theoretical Framework 2. Conditions on Syllabification 3. Continuous Syllabification and Stray Erasure 4. Syllabification and Stray Operations 5. Directionality in Syllabification; Bibliography