MINAMIDA Hitomi
（南田　仁美）

Research Interests

Dissertation

2023. Minamida, Hitomi. Wh-prosody, locality, and lexical pitch accent in wh-in-situ languages. Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University [dissertation].

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2023. Minamida, Hitomi. Unaccented and final-accented classes in lexical pitch accent languages: A case study of Gyeongsang Korean. Language Research 59(3): 253-270. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2023.59.3.253.

A number of researchers (Kenstowicz & Sohn, 1997; Jun et al., 2006, among others) have claimed that the pitch accent systems of Gyeongsang Korean (specifically North Gyeongsang Korean and South Gyeongsang Korean) lack an unaccented class and instead have a final-accented class. This claim contradicts recent work on the role of accentedness in wh-prosody in Gyeongsang Korean (Hwang 2011) and earlier research on Gyeongsang lexical pitch accent (Ramsey 1978). In this study, I provide additional prosodic evidence to support the claim that Gyeongsang Korean has an unaccented class. I also argue that a final-accented class in Gyeongsang Korean exists, but it is limited to loanwords. This study demonstrates the importance of using more than one diagnostic to identify accent classes in lexical pitch accent languages.

Conference Proceedings

2022. Minamida, Hitomi. The realization of unaccentedness in Korean and Japanese pitch accent systems. In Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2021), ed. by Peter Jurgec, Liisa Duncan, Emily Elfner, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Brittney K. O’Neill, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz, Nate Shaftoe, and Lisa Sullivan. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.5192.

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. The interaction of prosody and wh-scope and the pragmatics of wh-islands: Data from Osaka Japanese. In Proceedings of the 37th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 37), ed. by D. K. E. Reisinger and Marianne Huijsmans, 179–188. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [link]

Note: WCCFL 37 did not take place in 2019. In order to fill the gap year, poster presentations at WCCFL 38 were published in Proceedings of WCCFL 37.

2020. Minamida, Hitomi. Prosody and wh-scope in Osaka Japanese. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27, ed. by Michael Barrie, 239–253. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. [paper] [LingBuzz] [link]

2019. Minamida, Hitomi. On the derivation and interpretation of doubly-headed relative clauses. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49), ed. by Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky, 293–302. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications. [paper] [link]

2018. Minamida, Hitomi. Two forms of relative clauses in Osaka Japanese and their theoretical implications. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25, ed. by Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim, and Mee-Jeong Park. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. [link]

Conference Presentations

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. "The realization of unaccentedness in Korean and Japanese pitch accent systems". Talk at the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2021). University of Toronto and York University. Toronto, ON, Canada. October 1-3. (online)

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. "Daegu Korean has unaccented words". Talk at 34es Journées de Linguistique Asie Orientale (JLAO 34). Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale. Paris, France. July 7-9. (online)

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. "The realization of unaccentedness in Korean and Japanese pitch accent systems". Talk at Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context 2021 (KLCC 2021). Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, USA. June 4-6. (online)

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. "The typology of wh-scope marking strategies". Poster at the 95th LSA Annual Meeting. January 7-10. (online)

2020. Minamida, Hitomi. "Prosody and wh-scope in Osaka Japanese". Poster at the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 38). University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 6–8.

2019. Minamida, Hitomi. "Prosody and wh-scope in Osaka Japanese". Talk at the 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 27). Sogang University (서강대학교/西江大学校). Seoul, South Korea. October 18–20.

2018. Minamida, Hitomi. "On the derivation and interpretation of doubly-headed relative clauses". Poster at the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49). Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, USA. October 5–7.

2017. Minamida, Hitomi. "Pronoun-external doubly-headed relative clauses in Japanese and Korean: New data from Osaka Japanese". Talk at the 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 25). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Honolulu, HI, USA. October 12–14.

Invited Presentations

2021. Minamida, Hitomi. "The interaction of prosody and wh-scope and the pragmatics of wh-islands: Data from Osaka Japanese". Invited talk at Prof. Jaklin Kornfilt's syntax class "LIN 441 Syntactic Analysis". Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY, USA. April 26. (online)