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	goon

Alternative spelling
連聲 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

連(れん)声(じょう) • (renjō) ^{←れんじやう (renzyau)^?}

(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

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

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