Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity



John J. McCarthy  

UMass-Amherst



Alan Prince

Rutgers University 



Published (1995) in University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 18: Papers in Optimality Theory. Ed. by Jill Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk and Laura Walsh Dickey. Pp. 249?384.
 

This paper proposes a revised view of faithfulness in  Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), relating it to reduplicative identity (McCarthy & Prince 1993). Faithfulness and identity are unified in a theory of Correspondence relations between structures. The theory is 
 investigated by way of a study of over- and underapplication effects in reduplicated structures.