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This study investigates morpho-phonological processes involved in Noun- Noun compound production, focusing on the interaction between segmental level processing and suprasegmental-level processing. Our production experiments manipulate lexical accent type in the first and second constituents of compounds in Tokyo Japanese, which in turn controls the explicitness of the application of the Compound Accent Rule (CAR). This allows us to examine whether the explicitness of compound processing at the suprasegmental-level influences the occurrence of rendaku, which results from segmental planning in compound production. The study finds that rendaku is more likely to occur when CAR application is obvious from the accent pattern of the second constituent. This result is consistent with an interactive model in which compound construction at a suprasegmental -level facilitates rendaku application at the segmental level. On the other hand, no reliable effect of the accent type of the first constituent was observed. This study thus supports Kawahara and Sano’s (2012, 2014) claim that the original version of Lyman’s law, but not the strong version, plays a role in the process of producing novel compounds.
