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ROA 717-0205

A Study of Nominal Reduplication in Modern Hebrew

Dafna Graf <D.Graf at let.leidenuniv.nl>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=717


Abstract:
This paper studies a process of diminutive reduplication
in the nominal system of Modern Hebrew, in which the output
of the reduplication process � the reduplicated form � is
subject to templatic demands. It is suggested that nominal
reduplication exemplifies templatic word formation in that
it obeys general principles on prosodic wellformedness that
are familiar from other word formation processes in the language.
One intriguing aspect of this type of reduplication is a
suggested interdependency between base and reduplicated
form in that not only the segments of the base influence
the output, but also that the base for the process must
be of a specific prosodic shape. This relation differs principall
y from the Base-Reduplicant faithfulness relation studied
in OT-literature.
Restrictions on the structure of the output as well as the
establishment of correspondence relations between base and
reduplicated form are supported by data that were collected
in a production experiment with native speakers. This paper
is a slightly modified version of the report on the results
of this experiment, delievered in June 2002.

Comments: 
Keywords: Reduplication, prosodic morphology, Hebrew
Areas: Phonology, Morphology
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=717