| ROA: | 125 |
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| Title: | On Reduplication and Its Effects on the Base |
| Authors: | Miriam Meyerhoff, William Thomas Reynolds |
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| Length: | 18 |
| Abstract: | On Reduplication and Its Effects on the Base in Maori ROA-125 18 pp. maori.rtf Miriam Meyerhoff and Bill Reynolds University of Pennsylvania and University of the Witwatersrand mhoff@babel.ling.upenn.edu 104rey@muse.arts.wits.ac.za Maori, an Oceanic language spoken in New Zealand, uses both left-edge and right-edge reduplication to realize a variety of derivational and inflectional cate-gories. This paper focuses on one particular type of Maori reduplication in order to illustrate an aspect of the reduplication process which, to our knowledge, has not been discussed in the literature to date: the idea that reduplication may actually have an effect on the phonological form of the base itself. We present an analysis of Maori reduplication which accounts for both the form of the reduplicant and its effects on the base within the framework of Optimality Theory. Most aspects of Maori reduplication can be accounted for straightforwardly under such a theory. However, we will show that in order to account for all the facts of Maori reduplication, the function of the Base-Dependence constraint, which operates in the domain of the reduplicant, must have wider scope than has pre-viously been proposed. We will suggest that the domain of Base-Dependence must include more than segmental material, i.e., suprasegmental features have a role to play in defining the optimal reduplicated form. We then show that, given this expanded role of Base-Dependence, reduplication in Maori may affect not only the form of the reduplicant, but also the form of the base. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |