Morpheme-specific Phonology in Reduplication

The Locus of Exceptionality: Morpheme-Specific Phonology as Constraint Indexation

Morphemes often behave differently phonologically in ways that cannot be explained purely phonologically: one morpheme undergoes or triggers a process while another morpheme fails to undergo or trigger that process, even though the two are in all relevant respects indistinguishable. Piro syncope (Matteson 1965, Kisseberth 1970, Lin 1997) provides an example of such morpheme-specific 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 ...