| ROA: | 83 |
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| Title: | Repetition and its Avoidance: The Case of Javanese |
| Authors: | Moira Yip |
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| Length: | 23 |
| Abstract: | Repetition and its Avoidance: The Case of Javanese ROA-83 java.wp6: 23pp. Moira Yip University of California, Irvine myip@orion.oac.uci.edu This paper examines Habitual-Repetitive Reduplication in Javanese. It is argued that echo-words result from the tension between a requirement that penalizes a sequence of two identical stems, *Repeat(Stem), and one that requires two identical stems, Repeat(Stem). In addition, I reinforce the main points of the preceding abstract: First, at least some inputs to the Optimality Grammar must be abstract morphological specifications like Plural. They are phonologically incomplete outputs of the morpho-syntax. Second, morpheme realization results from an attempt to meet output targets in the form of constraints: Repeat, =E52 =3Da; Pl=3Ds, and so on. Crucially, reduplication results from the need to satisfy a constraint, Repeat, and not from the underlying presence of a RED morpheme. Third, the target constraints may be out-ranked by phonological constraints of various kinds, particularly constraints against the repetition of elements, here called *Repeat, rather than the OCP. The primary data comes from Javanese, but the paper also touches on English and Turkish. Section 1 gives some background on the handling of morphological data in OT. Section 2 discusses identity avoidance in morphology, sets out the basic proposal, and gives sketches of English and Turkish. Section 3 is an extended discussion of Javanese. Section 4 looks at secret languages, and section 5 sums up. To appear in K. Suzuki and D. Elzinga, eds.,the Proceedings of the Arizona Phonology Conference 4: Features in OT. ============================================ |
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| Article: | Version 1 |