| ROA: | 284 |
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| Title: | Right Anchor, Aweigh |
| Authors: | Nicole Nelson |
| Comment: | 29 pages. Word file requires SILDoulosIPA93 font |
| Length: | 29 |
| Abstract: | Right Anchor, Aweigh Nicole Nelson Rutgers University Cross-linguistically, an asymmetry with respect to left and right anchoring has long been noted in the realm of reduplication. Namely, we see that reduplicants are most often prefixes, and these prefixes mostly contain material copied from the left side of the base, (thus are "left- anchored"). In this paper, I offer an explanation for the anchoring aspect of this asymmetry, extending the tendency to truncation as well. Building on previous work on the role of prominence in an OT grammar (Beckman 1998, e.g.) I suggest that right anchoring is rare simply because it does not exist in an explicit form. Rather, right anchoring is required by a general constraint, ANCHOR EDGE BR/BT, which requires anchoring to both edges of the base. ANCHOR EDGE then coexists with the special constraint ANCHOR LEFT. Thus, right anchoring is merely an emergent property of the grammar, either appearing upon compelled violation of the left-anchoring requirement, or else in order to help satisfy a third constraint, ANCHOR-[stressed syllable]. Several cases of apparent right anchoring will be examined in a way consistent with the proposal, thus adding additional support. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |