Prosodic Reduplication in Yorùbá

Temiar Reduplication in One-Level Prosodic Morphology

Temiar reduplication is a difficult piece of prosodic morphology. This paper presents the first computational analysis of Temiar reduplication, using the novel finite-state approach of One-Level Prosodic Morphology originally developed by Walther (1999b, 2000). After reviewing both the data and the basic tenets of One-level Prosodic Morphology, the analysis is laid out in some detail, using the...

Finite-State Reduplication in One-Level Prosodic Morphology

Reduplication, a central instance of prosodic morphology, is particularly challenging for state-ofthe-art computational morphology, since it involves copying of some part of a phonological string. In this paper I advocate a finite-state method that combines enriched lexical representations via intersection to implement the copying. The proposal includes a resource-conscious variant of automata ...

Distributed Reduplication

Onset Transfer in Reduplication

A frequently noted property of reduplication is that the reduplicant is generally a contiguous substring of the base (e.g. Marantz 1982; McCarthy and Prince 1986, 1995; Lamontagne 1996). For example, Lamontagne (1996) identifies [[ABC]R[ABCDE...]B] as a 'typical reduplication pattern', and [[ACD]R[ABCDE...]B] as 'atypical'. In optimality theory, this property is enforced by the "no skipping" cl...

Reduplication in Stratal OT

In Stratal OT, morphology and phonology are stratified and interleaved, as in traditional Lexical Phonology (Mohanan 1986), but the strata (Stem, Word, Postlexical) are characterized by systems of parallel constraints. The output of each morphological operation is submitted to the phonological constraints on its stratum: stems must satisfy the stem phonology, words must satisfy the word phonolo...