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By Rene Kager, Harry van der Hulst, Wim Zonneveld

In lots of languages, notice formation is particular via rules of prosody that set up speech sounds into higher devices corresponding to the syllable. Written through a world crew of top linguists within the box of prosodic morphology, this e-book examines a variety of key matters within the interplay of observe formation and prosody. It offers an evidence for nonconcatenative morphology that happens in numerous types (such as reduplication) in lots of languages, by means of an interplay of self sustaining normal ideas of prosodic and morphological well-formedness.

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Spring, Cari. 1990. D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Steriade, Donca. 1988. Reduplication and syllable transfer in Sanskrit and elsewhere, Phonology 5: 73–155. Vergnaud, Jean-Roger, and Morris Halle. 1978. Metrical structures in phonology: a fragment of a draft, ms. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Williams, Edwin S. 1976. Underlying tone in Margi and Igbo, Linguistic Inquiry 7: 463–84. ] Yip, Moira. 1982. Reduplication and C-V skeleta in Chinese secret languages, Linguistic Inquiry 13: 637–61.

Metrical structures in phonology: a fragment of a draft, ms. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Williams, Edwin S. 1976. Underlying tone in Margi and Igbo, Linguistic Inquiry 7: 463–84. ] Yip, Moira. 1982. Reduplication and C-V skeleta in Chinese secret languages, Linguistic Inquiry 13: 637–61. Zoll, Cheryl C. 1996. D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 2 On the moraic representation of underlying geminates: evidence from Prosodic Morphology Stuart Davis 1.

Kiif-ii kiif-aayee “fish” c. suun-aa suun-aayee “name” d. *jaaj-aa) jaaj-aayee “red” Plural Gloss a. Gaun-aa Singular Gaun-aayee “buffalo” b. mais-oo mais-aayee “disused farm” c. gaul-aa gaul-aayee “idiot” Based on the data in (18) to (21) one could posit that if the root syllable contains a short vowel the allomorph -aaCee is selected, but if the root syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong then -aayee is selected. However, the data in (22) show that this generalization is not quite correct.

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