Stress Restricts Reduplication

Quantity, stress and reduplication in Washo*

Plural internal reduplication in Washo has generated much interest in the phonological literature. This study presents a novel analysis that unifies the treatment of a set of seemingly disparate aspects of this plural reduplication pattern (e.g. variation in the placement and size of the reduplicant, contrastive vowel length in stressed syllables, post-tonic gemination, and vowel-length inherit...

A Stress-Based Approach to Ponapean Reduplication

Ponapean (also called Pohnpeian) uses a reduplicative prefix on verbs to express the durative aspect (Rehg and Sohl 1981). The prosodic shape of the prefix is suggestive of a templatic operation, motivating the use of the heavy syllable as a target of reduplication (McCarthy & Prince 1986). A number of analyses have been proposed for the Ponapean durative, with attention to its property of “qua...

Stress and Allomorphy in Woleaian Reduplication

Woleaian shares the progressive and denotative affixes seen in other Trukic and Ponapeic languages of Western Micronesia (Harrison 1973, Sohn 1975). The progressive is invariably a prefix, and like in other Trukic languages (such as Chuukese, Puluwat, and Ulithian) it is bimoraic, with the second mora realized by geminating the initial consonant of the stem (fati → faf-fati ‘being angular’, fil...

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...