@article{oai:kumadai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00031613,
 author = {Kodama, Nozomi and 児玉, 望 and Kodama, Nozomi and 児玉, 望},
 journal = {人文科学論叢, Kumamoto journal of humanities},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {A structuralist account of accent changes in Japanese dialects has been attempted by the present author on the assumption that the proto-system of the Japanese pitch accent as attested in tonal notations in Ruijū Myōgi-shō（ 類聚名義抄） had a raising, rather than a lowering, kernel as the locus of tonal prominence. This paper focuses on the two possible paths from the erstwhile raising kernel to the lowering kernel which is currently by far the most prevalent in Japanese pitch accent dialects. The path via the descending kernel, which was recorded in philological sources in Kyoto dialect since the 11th century and has been considered as a norm in Kindaichi Haruhiko’s account of accent changes to Tokyo-type systems, is not traceable except in and around Kansai and Shikoku areas. Other systems are shown to be better explained by the other path which involves the ascending kernel with advanced pitch rise replaced subsequently by the following pitch fall as the invariable distinctive feature to become a lowering kernel. The overall genealogical tree from the word tone systems of Proto-Japono-Ryukyuan is also revised so that it has a single branch covering all the pitch accent systems as offshoots of the proto-system with the raising kernel.},
 pages = {45--64},
 title = {アクセント核はどう変わるか},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2020},
 yomi = {コダマ, ノゾミ and コダマ, ノゾミ}
}