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This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to
reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to
create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the
driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic,
not the phonological level, and present a new model of
reduplication - Morphological Doubling Theory - that derives the
full range of reduplication patterns. This approach shifts the
focus away from the relatively small number of cases of
phonological overapplication and underapplication, which have
played a major role in earlier studies, to the larger class of
cases where base and reduplicant diverge phonologically. The
authors conclude by arguing for a theoretical shift in phonology,
which entails more attention to word structure. As well as
presenting the authors' pioneering work, this book also provides a
much-needed overview of reduplication, the study of which has
become one of the most contentious in modern phonological theory.
This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to
reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to
create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the
driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic,
not the phonological level, and present a new model of
reduplication - Morphological Doubling Theory - that derives the
full range of reduplication patterns. This approach shifts the
focus away from the relatively small number of cases of
phonological overapplication and underapplication, which have
played a major role in earlier studies, to the larger class of
cases where base and reduplicant diverge phonologically. The
authors conclude by arguing for a theoretical shift in phonology,
which entails more attention to word structure. As well as
presenting the authors' pioneering work, this book also provides a
much-needed overview of reduplication, the study of which has
become one of the most contentious in modern phonological theory.
This book proposes a new way of understanding the behavior of
consonants and vowels in a broad cross-section of the world's
languages. A new model of subsegmental phonology within optimality
theory that differs from standard autosegmental phonology both in
its limited use of representational distinctions and in the form of
the grammar to which the representations submit is introduced. The
research focuses particularly on floating features and ghost
segments, and demonstrates that the current understanding of
segmental representation fails to characterize the full range of
subsegmental phenomena found cross-linguistically. Zoll proposes
instead an analysis in which the grammar derives the variety of
surface phenomena from a single underlying representation. This
work both enlarges the empirical foundation on which an adequate
theory of segment structure must be based, and in developing such
an account sheds new light on classic problems of subsegmental
parsing.
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