Confluence in Phonology: Evidence from Micronesian 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 ...

13 Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication

and others, the primary goal in the study of partial reduplication has been to construct a theory that insightfully captures the full range of considerations that speakers may invoke in determining how a reduplicant will relate to its base. Given that both phonology and morphology are potentially involved, this has meant two things. First, there has been an attempt to characterize the reduplica...

Metalinguistic, shmetalinguistic: the phonology of shm-reduplication

JILA GHOMESHI, RAY JACKENDOFF, NICOLE ROSEN and KEVIN RUSSELL CONTRASTIVE FOCUS REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH

This paper presents a phenomenon of colloquial English that we call Contrastive Reduplication (CR), involving the copying of words and sometimes phrases as in It’s tuna salad, not SALAD-salad, or Do you LIKE-HIM-like him? Drawing on a corpus of examples gathered from natural speech, written texts, and television scripts, we show that CR restricts the interpretation of the copied element to a ‘r...