Plural internal reduplication in Washo has generated much interest in the phonological literature. This study presents a novel analysis that unifies the treatment of a set of seemingly disparate aspects of this plural reduplication pattern (e.g. variation in the placement and size of the reduplicant, contrastive vowel length in stressed syllables, post-tonic gemination, and vowel-length inherit...

This paper provides supporting evidence for a number of hypotheses made in recent models of derivational syntax. The phenomenon under study is shm-reduplication in English, a particular instance of the more general, cross-linguistic pattern of echo reduplication. It is argued that the two elements in a reduplicated structure form a chain of two left-peripheral positions that, due to a distinctn...

Segmental quantity-the distinction between long and short vowels or geminate and simplex consonants-is preserved under specifiable conditions in reduplication.’ Current nonlinear phonology holds, for a number of compelling reasons, that segmental quantity is represented confrgurationally, in the mapping of phonemic melodies to prosodic templates. The theory also holds that reduplication is acco...

While the formal properties of reduplication in many languages have aroused the interest of many linguists and much appears to have been done in this area, the same cannot be said about its semantics. It seems that our understanding of the kinds of meaning associated with reduplication processes remains rather limited. This is regrettable, given that language meaning can shed a lot of light on ...

Malagasy is an Austronesian language with a productive reduplication morphology that applies to both roots and affixed stems. In this paper, we focus on the reduplication of a class of verbs in Malagasy. These verbs often appear with an active voice marker “an-” that triggers alternation in the root-initial consonants. The reduplication of the “an”-verbs is analyzed within two different framewo...

This article is intended to investigate the reduplication processes of bahasa Dawan spoken by people in NTT Province using morphological distribution theory proposed Framton 2004. To complete study, a qualitative research method had been chosen based on consideration that data were form words. Those taken from utterances Dawan’s traditional ceremony as main source. Besides, Tata Bahasa book pla...

This research aims to identify the interference of Betawi language elements morphological variables adolescent speech in Jakarta. The present study uses a qualitative method approach using descriptive analysis techniques. subjects current were adolescents who data analyzed this are words sentence that interfered with language, which contained aspects affixation, reduplication, composition, and ...

Kim, Hyung-Soo. 2003. A new look at partial reduplication in Korean. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 0.0. 00-000. An approach based on the phonological process of dissimilation turns out to do a better job of explaining the so-called asymmetry and delaryngealization in partial reduplication of ideophonic words in Korean than any of previous constraint-based analyses, including th...

The question to be addressed in this paper is how a language which is fundamentally monosyllabic in structure can have about a dozen different reduplication types with at least eight different linguistic functions. The language under discussion, American Sign Language (ASL), is one representative of a class of languages that makes widespread use of reduplication for lexical and morphological pu...