The (non)interaction of lenition and reduplication
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The Correspondence model of base-reduplicant identity (McCarthy & Prince 1995, to appear) makes the prediction that any kind of segmental phonological process may result in any of these situations through ranking of phonological constraints with faithfulness constraints on the input and output and the basereduplicant relationship. Normal application arises when base-reduplicant faithfulness constraints are ranked lower than input-output faithfulness constraints and markedness/well-formedness constraints (2a). Underapplication and overapplication arise when constraints on base-reduplicant faithfulness are ranked above such constraints, as shown in (2b,c) from Kager (to appear) based on McCarthy & Prince (to appear):
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