1 On Tonal Transfer
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What happens to tone when a form is reduplicated in a tone language? In the classic models of Marantz (1982) and McCarthy and Prince (1986), it is only segmental melody that is copied from the base. The prediction is thus that no tones of the base will appear on the reduplicant. In other models, on the other hand, the whole base is copied, including prosody (Steriade 1988, McCarthy and Prince 1988, McCarthy and Prince 1993a). Such models make the prediction that the tone of the base will always appear on the reduplicant. The facts turn out to be more complicated than either of these extreme scenarios. In Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Malawi, there are two reduplicative constructions, each of which poses problems for a tonal analysis. In verbs, as in (1), the stem is reduplicated to form a repetitive expression.2
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تاریخ انتشار 1994