Diminutive reduplication in government phonology

Confluence in Phonology: Evidence from Micronesian Reduplication

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Metalinguistic, shmetalinguistic: the phonology of shm-reduplication

Ablaut and reduplication in Dakota: Revisiting the phonology-morphology relationship

In this paper I present a solution for two intertwined puzzles in the morphophonology of Dakota. There is an active ablaut process in Dakota; this process is lexically conditioned in ordinary circumstances, but just in reduplicative contexts the process becomes partially phonologically conditioned. Another challenge that arises from consideration of this ablaut puzzle is that epenthetic vowels ...

Fission Reduplication in Chinese Dialects – Interaction between phonology and morphology

There is a common phenomenon in Chinese, from Old Chinese through modern dialects, where a monosyllabic word phonologically and semantically corresponds to a disyllabic word. This phenomenon is actually related to a type of reduplication that I called fission reduplication. I have done research on reduplication of this type in Old Chinese, and this paper will only focus on its modern form. Two ...

Formal Parameters of Phonology - From Government Phonology to SPE

Inspired by the model-theoretic approach to phonology deployed by Kracht [25] and Potts and Pullum [32], I develop an extendable modal logic for the investigation of phonological theories operating on (richly annotated) string structures. In contrast to previous research in this vein [17, 31, 37], I ultimately strive to study the entire class of such theories rather than merely one particular i...