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ROA 787-1205

Vowel reduction in Palauan reduplicants

Kie Zuraw <kie at ucla.edu>

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Abstract:

Palauan exhibits vowel reduction in unstressed syllables,
and two types of reduplication. Because reduplicants are
unstressed, they undergo vowel reduction. Vowel reduction
and reduplication are discussed in some detail, because
of their inherent interest: vowel reduction is a synchronic
chain shift, and the reduplicant takes on several prosodic
shapes. The main point, however, is that reduplicants are
vowel-reduced with respect to the underlying form, not with
respect to the base in a reduplicated word. Therefore, base-redup
licant correspondence does not suffice to determine the
content of the reduplicant.

Comments: appears in Proceedings of AFLA 8: The Eighth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
Keywords: Palauan, reduplication, vowel reduction, exceptionality
Areas: Phonology
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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