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| Title: | Reduplication as Morphological Doubling |
| Authors: | Sharon Inkelas, Cheryl Zoll |
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| Length: | 51 |
| Abstract: | Reduplication as Morphological Doubling Sharon Inkelas, Berkeley Cheryl Zoll, MIT The Correspondence Theory of reduplication (McCarthy & Prince 1995; henceforth BR Correspondence Theory) emerges from the assumption that the preservation of phonological identity between reduplicant and base constitutes the core problem of reduplication, motivated in particular by the unexpected overapplication and underapplication of alternations in reduplicative contexts (Wilbur 1973). However, phonological identity between the two copies in a reduplication construction is just one facet of a wide range of effects that comprise reduplication. This paper shows that the problem of reduplication looks very different when the focus is shifted away from the relatively small number of cases of phonological overapplication and underapplication to the larger class of cases where base and reduplicant diverge phonologically. We present evidence that demonstrates that the driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic, not phonological level, and outline a theory of reduplication as morphological doubling that derives the full range of reduplication patterns. |
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| Article: | Version 1 |