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| Title: | Reduplication as alliteration and rhyme |
| Authors: | Moira Yip |
| Comment: | 5 pages. This squib will appear in GLOT International 1999 |
| Length: | 5 |
| Abstract: | Reduplication as Alliteration and Rhyme Moira Yip University of California, Irvine University College London (Squib to appear in GLOT International, 1999) The prevailing view of reduplication (Marantz 1982, McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1995) analyses it as an abstract affix whose segmental content is copied from the base in accordance with certain principles or constraints. Among these are stipulative constraints (such as Anchor in OT), that ensure that prefixal reduplicants take their segmental material from the beginning of the word, and suffixal reduplicants take their material from the end of the word. The standard analysis misses one obvious generalization: the reduplicant and the copy are always adjacent, resulting in rhyming sequences. I suggest that the real core of reduplication is an attempt to produce sequences that rhyme and alliterate, and that rather than involving an abstract affix, reduplication is caused by Rhyme and Alliterate constraints. This approach has a number of consequences. To mention a couple, VC copy is easily handled as the result of the rhyming sequence preceding the alliterating sequence, instead of the more usual alliterate-rhyme order. Some languages use unmarked segments in reduplication (Alderete et al 1998). In the approach advocated here, if Markedness >> Alliterate, onsets will become unmarked, and if Markedness >> Rhyme, rhymes will become unmarked. If Markedness is ranked below both, segments will be copied intact. The analysis makes explicit the link between reduplication and poetic rhyme and alliteration, a connection obscured by the usual analyses. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |