Parameter Setting for Abstract Stress in Tokyo Japanese

                           Eiji Yamada
              Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University
           8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-01, Japan

                             Abstract

     This paper shows that the principles-and-parameters approach in
generative phonology can also be applied to pitch-accent languages
such as Tokyo Japanese.
     In Halle and Vergnaud (1987), various stress patterns of words
and phrases in a number of stress-accent languages have been accounted
for by rules and parameters.  Likewise, if we define a certain
prosodical point in Tokyo Japanese as an abstract stress, its location
can be predicted by the rules and parameters.
      Moreover, parallels and differences between the parameters of
Tokyo Japanese and those of four languages (Latin, Polish, Turkish,
ancient Greek) are shown with the proposed Edge Demarcation Convention
within the new theoretical framework of metrical phonology formulated
by Halle and Idsardi (1992).