Distributed Reduplication

Distributed Reduplication

Discontiguous Reduplication

McCarthy& Prince () outline a theory of reduplication in which segments in the reduplicant stand in correspondence with segments in the base. Discontiguous partial reduplication patterns, in which a string of segments in the reduplicant corresponds with a discontiguous string of segments in the base, have been observed in various languages in the Austronesian and Austroasiatic language fami...

A-templatic Reduplication

In this squib I discuss an unusual type of reduplication in which the reduplicant varies not only in terms of its phonemic composition but also in terms of its prosodic shape. The variability in the shape of the reduplicant results from a grammar that does not impose any constraint particular to the shape of the reduplicant per se. Further, I demonstrate that even in cases where the reduplicant...

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...