Junko Ito

Professor of Linguistics
UC Santa Cruz

Email: ito AT ucsc.edu

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2006
Prince Festschrift

Eric Bakovic, Junko Ito, and John McCarthy, eds. Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. California Digital Library eScholarship Repository. Linguistic Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz
Also available from the on-demand publisher BookSurge.

2006 "Indulgentia Parentum Filiorum Pernicies: Lexical Allomorphy in Latin and Japanese" [with A. Mester]. In: 2006. Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. California Digital Library
2006 "Systemic markedness and faithfulness" [with A. Mester]. CLS 39 [in press]. pdf version.
2004 "Morphological contrast and merger: ranuki in Japanese" [with A. Mester]. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 20. 1-18. pdf version.
2003
MIT press picture

Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure [with A. Mester]. MIT Press Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series 41. Cambridge, Mass.
Related manuscripts and handouts:
1996 Rendaku 1: Constraint Conjunction and the OCP ROA handout
1998 Markedness and Word Structure: OCP Effects in Japanese ROA manuscript

2003 "Lexical and postlexical phonology in Optimality Theory: evidence from Japanese" with A. Mester. Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 11: Resolving Conflicts in Grammars. Ed. by G. Fanselow and C. Féry. 183-207. pdf version
2003 "On the sources of opacity in OT: coda processes in German" with A. Mester. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), The Syllable in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press. 271-303. ROA version
2002 "One phonology or many? Issues in stratal faithfulness theory" with A. Mester. In The Phonological Society of Japan, ed., Phonological Studies 5. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 121-126. pdf version
2001 "Structure preservation and stratal opacity in German" with A. Mester. In L. Lombardi (ed.), Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press, pp. 261-295. pdf version
2001 "Covert generalizations in Optimality Theory: the role of stratal faithfulness constraints" with A. Mester. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology  7.2: 273-299. pdf version
2001 "Alternations and distributional patterns in Japanese Phonology " with A. Mester and J. Padgett. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, pp.54-60. [Revised and extended from "Lexical Classes in Japanese: a Reply to Rice", in PASC: PASC version on California Digital Library]
1999 "The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon", with A. Mester. In Tsujimura, Natsuko (ed.) The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, and Oxford, U.K. pp. 62-100. ROA version
1999 "Realignment", with A. Mester. In R. Kager, H. v.d. Hulst, and W. Zonneveld, (eds.). The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. pp. 188-217. pdf version
1999 "Featural Sympathy: Feeding & Counterfeeding Interactions in Japanese", with A. Mester, in Muraki, Masatake, & Iwamoto Enoch (eds.), Linguistics: In Search of the Human Mind. A Festschrift for Kazuko Inoue. Taishukan, Tokyo, 268-278, [peer-reviewed and revised version of Ito and Mester 1997 in D. Karvonen, M. Katayama, and R. Walker (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz (PASC) 5, 29-36]
1998 "Nonfinality in Japanese Phonology" [with H. Kubozono and J. Ito]. CD-ROM of the Proceedings of the XVIth Congrès International des Linguistes, Paris. Elsevier.
1997 "Sympathy Theory and German Truncations," with A. Mester, in: On'in kenkyuu Phonological Studies, ed. by the Phonological Society of Japan, Katakusha, Tokyo, 1998, 51-66. Also in Miglio, Viola and Bruce Moréen (eds.), University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 5, selected phonology papers from Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop 1997/University of Maryland Mayfest 1997, 117-139. ROA version
1997 "Correspondence and Compositionality: The Ga-gyô Variation in Japanese Phonology," with A. Mester, in I. Roca (ed.), Constraints and Derivations, Oxford University Press, 419-462. ROA version
1996 "Prosodic Faithfulness and Correspondence: Evidence from a Japanese Argot," with Y. Kitagawa and A. Mester, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 5, 217-294. ROA version

1995

"Licensing and Redundancy: Underspecification in Optimality Theory," with A. Mester and J. Padgett, Linguistic Inquiry 26, 571-614. ROA version.

1995

"The Core-Periphery Structure of the Lexicon and Constraints on Reranking," with A. Mester, in J. Beckman, S. Urbanczyk, and L. Walsh, (eds.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics [UMOP] 18: Papers in Optimality Theory, GLSA, Amherst, 181-209. pdf-version.

1994

"Japanese Phonology," with A. Mester, in Goldsmith, J. (ed.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory, Blackwell, 817-838. pdf version.

1994

"Reflections on CodaCond and Alignment," with A. Mester, in J. Merchant, J. Padgett, and R. Walker (eds.), Phonology at Santa Cruz [PASC] 3. Linguistics Researcher Center, University of California, Santa Cruz. 27-46. ROA version

1993

"Licensed Segments and Safe Paths," with A. Mester, in C. Paradis and D. LaCharite, (eds.), Constraint-Based Theories in Multilinear Phonology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 38, 197-213.

1992

"Weak Layering and Word Binarity," with A. Mester, Linguistic Research Center, LRC-92-09, University of California, Santa Cruz.[A slightly revised version appeared in Festschrift for Shosuke Haraguchi, 2003]

1990

"Prosodic Minimality in Japanese," CLS 26-II: Papers from the Parasession on the Syllable in Phonetics and Phonology, 213-239.

1989

"Notes on Monosyllabism in Turkish," Phonology at Santa Cruz (PASC) 1, with J. Hankamer, Santa Cruz, 61-69.

1989

"Feature Predictability and Feature Specification," with A. Mester, Language 65, 258-293.pdf file.

1989

"A Prosodic Theory of Epenthesis," Natural Language and Linguistics Theory 7, 217-260.

1988

Syllable Theory in Prosodic Phonology, Garland Publishing, New York.

1986

"The Phonology of Voicing in Japanese, Theoretical Consequences for Morphological Accessibility," with A. Mester, Linguistic Inquiry 17.1, 49-73.

1986

"Head-Movement at PF and LF - The Syntax of Head Internal Relatives," University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Amherst, Massachusetts, 109-138.

1985

"Consonant Loss in Danish and Phonological Theory," Descriptive and Applied Linguistics 18, 109-120.

1984

"On the Formal Representation of Ambisyllabicity: Evidence from Danish," with T. Borowsky and A. Mester, Proceedings of NELS 14, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 34-48.

1984

"Melodic Dissimilation in Ainu," Linguistic Inquiry 15.3, 505-513.