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...

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...

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...

This study focuses on trilateral reduplicated roots (CVCC), such as laff “wrap’”, and quadrilateral duplicated (CVCCVC), like waswas “whisper” their counterparts of the type C1VC2CC1VCc21 C1VC2C1VC2 in Urban Hijazi Arabic dialect (UHA dialect). research centers reduplication UHA a total duplication. Semantically, this displays three main functions: 1) intensifying reduplication, adjectives; 2) ...

We present for the first time a computational model for the reduplication of the Vietnamese language. Reduplication is a popular phenomenon of Vietnamese in which reduplicative words are created by the combination of multiple syllables whose phonics are similar. We first give a systematical study of Vietnamese reduplicative words, bringing into focus clear principles for the formation of a larg...

Building on the analysis of long-distance geminates as reduplication, this article argues that the OCP may apply to identical consonants across an intervening vowel. This is adduced from the behavior of guttural consonants in Semitic. It is further argued that antigemination is not resistance to an OCP violation but avoidance of gemination; syncope between identical consonants avoids an OCP vio...

Abstract The root and pattern system, as well as the system of reduplication, are essential to the morphological analysis of Arabic words. (McCarthy 1979, 1981) Few computational morphology systems have been designed to parse concatenative morphology, as well as roots and reduplication simultaneously, without the help of a dictionary. By using simple statistics, we show an algorithm that can le...

Reduplication in Malagasy copies a two-mora-long section of the base (e.g., alíka ‘dog’ → alìkalíka ‘something like a dog’). Although the reduplicant is usually left-anchored to the main-stress syllable, there are two types of words in the language that place the reduplicant elsewhere (anchored to secondary stress): finally-stressed loanwords, and native compounds. I argue that loanwords behave...

I propose that there is a purely phonological drive to impose a reduplicationlike structure (‘coupling’) on words. This structure can lead to enhancement or preservation of wordinternal self-similarity. The case of vowel raising in Tagalog loan stems is examined in detail. Raising can be blocked in order to preserve similarity between the stem penult and the stem ultima. The more similar the pe...