連声

連声

See also: 連聲 and 连声

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連	声
れん Grade: 4	しょう > じょう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 連 (ren, “connect”) and 声 (shō, “voice”). The shō changes to jō as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) れんじょー [rèńjóó] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɾẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑo̞ː]

Noun

連声 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 連聲, hiragana れんじょう, rōmaji renjō, historical hiragana れんじやう)

1. (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 (れんだく) (rendaku)

References

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN