Japanese

Noun

連声 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 連聲, hiragana れんじょう, romaji renjō, historical hiragana れんじやう)

1. (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

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3