| ROA: | 373 |
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| Title: | Why Constraint Conflict Can Disappear in Reduplication |
| Authors: | Caro Struijke |
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| Length: | 14 |
| Abstract: | Why Constraint Conflict can Disappear in Reduplication Caro Struijke University of Maryland, College Park (To appear in the proceedings of NELS 30) This paper argues that markedness and faithfulness constraints which conflict in unreduplicated words can be simultaneously satisfied in reduplicated forms. This is due to a broad interpretation of Input- Output Faithfulness, dubbed 'Word Faithfulness', which relates inputs to entire output words (Struijke 1998/ROA-261). In reduplicated words, Word Faithfulness relates the lexically specified input to both the base and the reduplicant through multiple correspondence. Constraints governing this faithfulness relation are satisfied if an input element is present in just one member of the base-reduplicant pair. The other member may change to ensure satisfaction of a markedness constraint without incurring a Word Faithfulness violation. The simultaneous satisfaction of markedness and faithfulness constraints in reduplicated words explains why vowel reduction is obligatory in Lushootseed reduplicated words, even though the alternation is optional in unreduplicated words. In unreduplicated words there is a conflict between a Faithfulness constraint preserving vowel quality features and a markedness constraint against full unstressed vowels: one has to be violated in order to satisfy the other. In reduplicated words, however, the constraint conflict disappears because both constraints can be satisfied simultaneously: the stressed member of the base-reduplicant pair faithfully parses the input vowel, thereby ensuring satisfaction of the faithfulness constraint, while the unstressed member reduces the vowel, thereby satisfying the markedness constraint against full unstressed vowels. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |