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ROA 790-1205

Aggressive reduplication

Kie Zuraw <kie at ucla.edu>

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Abstract:
I propose that there is a purely phonological drive to impose
a reduplication-like structure ("coupling") on words. This
structure can lead to enhancement or preservation of word-
internal self-similarity. The case of vowel raising in Tagalog
loan stems is examined in detail. Raising can be blocked
in order to preserve similarity between the stem penult
and the stem ultima. The more similar the penult and ultima
along various dimensions, the more likely coupling is, and
thus the more likely resistance to raising.


I attribute phonologically driven coupling to the activity
of a constraint REDUP in generation, which shapes the way
new words are lexicalised in the vowel raising case, but
also consider an alternative source for reduplicative construals
(the effect of *Spec in lexical learning). The proposal
is compared to others that promote correspondence between
similar or identical single segments within a word; I conclude
that a relation between strings is necessary.

Comments: appears in Phonology 19. Pp. 395-439 (pre-print version)
Keywords: Tagalog, reduplication, correspondence
Areas: Phonology,Morphology
Type: Journal Article

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