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Faded copies: Reduplication as distribution of activity
In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 58 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
Abstract: This paper proposes a new theory of reduplication that is based on redefining phonological copying as distribution of underlying activity within the framework of Gradient Symbolic Representations (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016). This assumption correctly predicts that copied elements are more likely to undergo phonological reduction and that reduction in a non-copying context implies reduction in a copying context but not vice versa. These predictions are summarized in the new empirical generalization of the ‘Copying-Weakening-Implication’. It is illustrated with case studies of two language types that show different thresholds for reduction: languages can show reduction only for copied material or only for material that is copied twice. Another important result of the proposal is the fact that copying symmetrically weakens all elements that are involved in the copying and does not single out the ‘reduplicant’ as the best target for reduction processes. This prediction is an important difference to accounts of reduplication based on BR-faithfulness (McCarthy & Prince 1995).
Keyword: Emergence of the Unmarked; Gradient Symbolic Representations; phonology; reduction; reduplication
URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1117
https://www.glossa-journal.org/jms/article/view/1117
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Being exceptional is being weak: Tonal exceptions in San Miguel el Grande Mixtec
In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2018)
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