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Which form is the correct causative-passive 聞く?
Both are correct.
Godan verbs can take two causative forms as mentioned in Wikipedia
「～せる」を「～す」と表すこともあるが、それは、五段活用のみであって、上一段活用・下一段活用・カ行変格活用・サ行変格活用では表さない。
Thus 聞かす・聞かせる are both legitimate causative ...
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Why is すごく almost always pronounced with an accent on the second mora (instead of the first mora)?
Here is a research paper for this topic:
田川恭識, 中川千恵子. 東京方言における形容詞連用形・終止形・連体形のアクセントについて 一日本語話し言葉コーパスの分析を通して一. 音声研究. 18(3) 2014.
The paper says:
「～く」の形を取る形容詞連用形の規範的なアクセントは、平板式形容詞の場合、「アカク」のようになり、...
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How are conjugation endings called by Japanese linguists?
A conjugation ending is usually called 活用語尾, which is a morpheme (形態素) dependent to a word, unlike independent ones like a noun and a verb. Whether it's part of a word or attached to a word/stem can ...
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