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Syllables and morpheme integrity in Kinande reduplication*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Ngessimo Mutaka  and
Larry M. Hyman
Ngessimo Mutaka
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Larry M. Hyman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Within the expanding framework of non-linear morphology, no wordformation process has sparked more interest than reduplication. Once relegated to a secondary status with a few examples, reduplication has now arrived centre stage as a testing ground for alternative theories of multitiered morphology and phonology. The innovative work of McCarthy (1981) and Marantz (1982) on this subject has laid the groundwork for subsequent formal treatments of reduplication, including Levin (1983), Broselow & McCarthy (1984), Clements (1985), Odden & Odden (1985), Schlindwein (1986, 1988), McCarthy & Prince (forthcoming), Kiparsky (1986), Mester (1986) and Steriade (1988), among others. These varying accounts of reduplication have been tested against a large and growing body of data from most parts of the world. Surprising to us, however, since every Bantu language we are familiar with has one or more reduplicative processes, relatively little attention has been focused on this rather large linguistic group of several hundred languages coverin a major part of the African continent.

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Phonology , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , May 1990 , pp. 73 - 119
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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