What happens to tone when a form is reduplicated in a tone language? In the classic models of Marantz (1982) and McCarthy and Prince (1986), it is only segmental melody that is copied from the base. The prediction is thus that no tones of the base will appear on the reduplicant. In other models, on the other hand, the whole base is copied, including prosody (Steriade 1988, McCarthy and Prince 1...
