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Aggressive reduplication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2003

Kie Zuraw
Kie Zuraw
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Phonology , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 2002 , pp. 395 - 439
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Thanks to the following people for very helpful comments and discussion on this work at various stages: Adam Albright, Tania Azores-Gunter, Bruce Hayes, Brett Kessler, Donka Minkova, Carson Schütze, Dominique Sportiche, Donca Steriade, Rachel Walker, Colin Wilson, Jie Zhang, Cheryl Zoll, audiences at the 1999 University of Alberta Workshop on the Lexicon, the 2000 LSA meeting in Chicago, MIT's Phonology Circle, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, three anonymous reviewers and the associate editor.