TY - JOUR
T1 - Reduplicant vowels in truku reduplication
AU - Lin, Hui shan
N1 - Funding Information:
I am also grateful to my Truku consultants Iyuq Ciyang, Jiru Haruq, Miquy Jiyan, and Tusi Yudaw (alphabetically ordered) for their help with the language data. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editor Daniel Kaufman for their valuable comments. All possible errors are my own responsibility. This study is supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, with the project number MOST 106-2410-H-003-033-MY2.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper examines the true nature of the reduplicant vowels in the two major types of reduplication in Truku, Ce- reduplication and CeCe- reduplication, which have been previously assumed to involve monosyllabic and disyllabic copying, respectively. The reduplicants of the two patterns (i.e., Ce- and CeCe-) contain schwas that are always considered as reduced vowels derived from the pretonic vowel reduction rule. Drawing evidence from three types of reduplication forms that have not been previously noticed/documented, that is, reduplication forms showing CeC- ~CeCe- variation, as well as reduplication taking place on monosyllabic words and on CV.- initial words, this paper argues that the schwas in the reduplicants of the two reduplication patterns do not always come from vowel reduction. Although the first schwa in the CeCe-reduplicant does come from vowel reduction, the final schwas in the CeCe- and Ce- reduplicant are actually inserted vowels that function to break up CC clusters. The findings also show that Ce- reduplication only copies consonants from the Base. Therefore, Truku, just as Squliq Atayal, also involves bare consonant copying.
AB - This paper examines the true nature of the reduplicant vowels in the two major types of reduplication in Truku, Ce- reduplication and CeCe- reduplication, which have been previously assumed to involve monosyllabic and disyllabic copying, respectively. The reduplicants of the two patterns (i.e., Ce- and CeCe-) contain schwas that are always considered as reduced vowels derived from the pretonic vowel reduction rule. Drawing evidence from three types of reduplication forms that have not been previously noticed/documented, that is, reduplication forms showing CeC- ~CeCe- variation, as well as reduplication taking place on monosyllabic words and on CV.- initial words, this paper argues that the schwas in the reduplicants of the two reduplication patterns do not always come from vowel reduction. Although the first schwa in the CeCe-reduplicant does come from vowel reduction, the final schwas in the CeCe- and Ce- reduplicant are actually inserted vowels that function to break up CC clusters. The findings also show that Ce- reduplication only copies consonants from the Base. Therefore, Truku, just as Squliq Atayal, also involves bare consonant copying.
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U2 - 10.1353/ol.2020.0009
DO - 10.1353/ol.2020.0009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102115185
SN - 0029-8115
VL - 59
SP - 148
EP - 189
JO - Oceanic Linguistics
JF - Oceanic Linguistics
IS - 1-2
ER -