Noun Faithfulness: Evidence from Accent in Japanese Dialects

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Kusumoto, John McCarthy, Rachel Walker, and the members of the UMass Phonology Reading Group for helpful discussion related to the topics considered here, and to Teruhiro Hayata for first introducing me to the variety of accent patterns to be found in Japanese dialects. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant SBR-9420424 and by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.