| ROA: | 149 |
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| Title: | A Unified Analysis of Crosslinguistic Morphological Gemination |
| Authors: | Vieri Samek-Lodovici |
| Comment: | Proceedings of CONSOLE-1, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 17pp |
| Length: | 1 |
| Abstract: | Morphological Gemination (MG) consists of the systematic gemination of a segment associated with a systematic change in meaning of the affected base. Any account of MG must deal with the following two issues: (a) accurately model how the gemination occurs. (b) predict where gemination occurs and which segment geminates. As for (a), this analysis follows Lombardi and McCarthy (1990), recognizing the existence of a purely prosodic affix constituted of an empty mora. Gemination emerges when this affix is inserted in a base and filled by one of the nearby segments. As for (b), the insertion site and the filling segment follow from the interaction of the prosodic and syllabic wellformedness constraints of the language. It is therefore the tension between affix realization and prosodic well-formedness that determines what segment will geminate and where: the grammatical derivation being the one that least violates the prosodic and syllabic constraints while best realizing the affix. |
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| Article: | Version 1 |