An Opacity Problem in Mayo Reduplication

Distributed Reduplication

Circumscription Revisited An Analysis of Maori Reduplication

It is argued that the process of circumscription must be reintroduced to current theories of prosodic morphology, specifically to Correspondence Theory. This notion has broader effects than the serial circumscriptive process, affecting concepts of categorisation within the grammar, as shown by discussion of the notion ‘base of reduplication’. The reduplicative processes of the Maori language ar...

Onset Transfer in Reduplication

A frequently noted property of reduplication is that the reduplicant is generally a contiguous substring of the base (e.g. Marantz 1982; McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1995; Lamontagne 1996). For example, Lamontagne (1996) identifies [[ABC]R[ABCDE...]B] as a 'typical reduplication pattern', and [[ACD]R[ABCDE...]B] as 'atypical'. In optimality theory, this property is enforced by the "no skipping" cl...

Reduplication in Stratal OT

In Stratal OT, morphology and phonology are stratified and interleaved, as in traditional Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986), but the strata (Stem, Word, Postlexical) are characterized by systems of parallel constraints. The output of each morphological operation is submitted to the phonological constraints on its stratum: stems must satisfy the stem phonology, words must satisfy the word phonolo...

Variations in Kavalan Reduplication

This paper provides an analysis of the reduplicative patterns of Kavalan, an endangered Formosan plains tribe language spoken by fewer than one hundred people on the eastern coast of Taiwan. Kavalan reduplication is special in that the reduplicant takes several distinct shapes depending on the initial syllable of the base (Lee 2009). Within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky...