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Turin, Mark. "Revisiting the morphophonology of Thangmi: a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal." Gipan 4 (December 31, 2019): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/gipan.v4i0.35457.

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This article revisits the morphophonology of Thangmi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal by a community group of the same name whose grammar and lexicon I was involved in documenting from 1996 onwards. The Thangmi (Nepali Thāmī) are an ethnic group who number around 30,000 and inhabit the central eastern hills of Nepal. The Thangmi are autochthonous to the upper reaches of Dolakhā district as well as to the eastern valleys of Sindhupālcok district, and their hitherto undocumented Tibeto-Burman language has two distinctly recognisable and mutually unintelligible dialects. Morphophonology (also known as morphophonemics) explores the interaction between morphology and phonology, and is predicated on a rigorous investigation of the phonological variations within morphemes that oftentimes mark different grammatical functions. While complex, Thangmi morphophonology lends itself to transparent interpretation, and this paper offers a modified analysis that builds on and develops from my earlier work (Turin 2012, 2005). Following a brief introduction to Thangmi segmental phonology, this article covers four aspects central to Thangmi morphophonology: the remnants of what may be a defunct liquid-nasal alternation, a brief overview of assimilation, a robust review of intervocalic approximants and finally a brief note on syncope.

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Lorimor, Heidi, Carrie N. Jackson, and Janet G. van Hell. "The interaction of notional number and morphophonology in subject–verb agreement: A role for working memory." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, no. 4 (May 4, 2018): 890–900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021818771887.

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Research shows that cross-linguistically, subject–verb agreement with complex noun phrases (e.g., The label on the bottles) is influenced by notional number and the presence of homophony in case, gender, or number morphology. Less well-understood is whether notional number and morphophonology interact during speech production, and whether the relative impact of these two factors is influenced by working memory capacity. Using an auditory sentence completion task, we investigated the impact of notional number and morphophonology on agreement with complex subject noun phrases in Dutch. Results revealed main effects of notional number and morphophonology. Critically, there was also an interaction between morphophonology and notional number because participants showed greater notional effects when the determiners were homophonous and morphophonologically ambiguous. Furthermore, participants with higher working memory scores made fewer agreement errors when the subject noun phrase contained homophonous determiners, and this effect was greater when the subject noun phrase was notionally singular. These findings support the hypothesis that cue-based retrieval plays a role in agreement production, and suggests that the ability to correctly assign subject–verb agreement—especially in the presence of homophonous determiners—is modulated by working memory capacity.

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Iosad, Pavel V. "Stratal phonology and Russian morphophonology." Rhema, no. 1, 2020 (2020): 36–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2020-1-36-55.

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This paper analyses a fragment of the morphophonological grammar of Russian, namely the so-called e ~ ’о alternation, within a Lexical Phonology-style stratal model. The aim is to demonstrate that the rule shows a range of properties usually associated with stem-level phonology. Thus, on the one hand, Russian data provides further support for a stratal model of morphophonology, and on the other hand stratal models appear to be a productive approach to Russian morphophonological alternations that explicitly links morphophonology with both phonological patterns and the morphological and semantic structure of Russian words.

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Kurisu, Kazutaka. "Nested derivedness in Ponapean morphophonology." Lingua 137 (December 2013): 106–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.08.006.

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Matthews, P. H. "SOME REFLECTIONS ON LATIN MORPHOPHONOLOGY." Transactions of the Philological Society 71, no. 1 (March 25, 2008): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968x.1972.tb01149.x.

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Singh, Rajendra, and Alan Ford. "L'interférence et la Théorie Phonologique." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 9, no. 2 (January 1, 1985): 365–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.9.2.07sin.

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The purpose of this paper is to argue that the facts of interphonology support a division of processes relating sound alternations into two distinct types: those that cannot cause negative transfer and those that can and often do. This distinction has been captured in two ways in recent phonological theory: (i) by proposing an autonomous morphophonology {cf. Hooper 1976) and (ii) by positing levels and strata (cf. Mohanan 1982 and Kiparsky 1982). Both internal and external evidence, such as the phonological behaviour of nonsense words {cf. Gussmann 1980) and the necessity of doing at least some inflection in the lexicon (cf. Lieber 1981), argues against the former model. The latter model succeeds in avoiding autonomous morphophonology, but only at the cost of postulating levels and strata, constructs for which interpho-nology offers no support. The facts of negative transfer or interference, it seems to us, are best accounted for by a theory that accounts for non-global "morphophonology" directly in the morphological component of the grammar (cf. Ford and Singh 1984 and Singh à paraître).

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Halle, Morris, and Ora Matushansky. "The Morphophonology of Russian Adjectival Inflection." Linguistic Inquiry 37, no. 3 (July 2006): 351–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2006.37.3.351.

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In this article, we present the morphosyntactic structure underlying the Russian adjectival declension and the phonological rules that apply to it to derive the surface representations. We describe the two declension classes of Russian adjectives and argue that adjectives and nouns employ the same theme suffixes (-oj- and -o-) and, importantly, that choice of theme suffix also determines choice of Case exponents. On this view, there is no special adjectival declension class; instead, Case exponents are shared between adjectives and nouns, and the choice of a “paradigm” is determined by the choice of the theme suffix. The article covers all adjectival inflections, including those of the possessives, demonstratives, interrogatives, and paucal numerals.

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Cathey, James E., and Deirdre Wheeler. "Finnish Verbal Morphophonology and Consonant Gradation." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 2 (June 1986): 103–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500001463.

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This paper critically reviews S. J. Keyser and Paul Kiparsky's “Syllable Structure in Finnish Phonology” (1984). We also treat Finnish morphophonemics using a CV-tier analysis, but account for forms that their method fails on. We posit six stem types in the verbal lexicon and derive the forms of all inflections of all types with just twelve morphophonemic rules. After the stems are modified and suffixes (and person/number endings) are attached, a single, general, phonological rule of Consonant Gradation applies postlexically. To develop a general theory from our analysis, we consider restrictions on rules which may alter stems: lexical rules apply to stems before affixation and only to the final segments of stems; only post-lexical phonological rules apply to affixes. We eliminate all morphological conditions on individual rules and extrinsic ordering conditions.

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Wallace, Rex. "Using Morphophonology in Elementary Ancient Greek." Classical World 100, no. 2 (2007): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/clw.2007.0020.

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Noamane, Ayoub. "The Morphophonology of Moroccan Arabic Derived Causatives." Macrolinguistics 8, no. 13 (December 30, 2020): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.13.1.

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This paper aims at investigating the morphophonological make-up of derived causatives in Moroccan Arabic within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 2004). Causative verbs in MA are characterized by the systematic gemination of their medial consonants. However, it is not easy to determine the morphological nature of the causative morpheme involved in this derivation. Also, it is not clearly known why the causative morpheme gets realized exactly on the second segment of the base form. Therefore, we seek to achieve the following goals. First, we intend to determine the nature of the causative morpheme. Second, we aim to explain why the causative morpheme is realized on the second segment of the base form. In this respect, we show that the causative morpheme is represented by a featureless consonantal mora that targets the second segment of the base root, turning it into a geminate. We also show that the causative morpheme gets infixed thanks to the privileged status of root-initial segments.

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Hanson, Vicki L., and Deborah Wilkenfeld. "Morphophonology and Lexical Organization in Deaf Readers." Language and Speech 28, no. 3 (July 1985): 269–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002383098502800304.

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Popescu, Alexandra. "The morphophonology of the Romanian clitic sequence." Lingua 110, no. 10 (October 2000): 773–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(00)00016-4.

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ETTLINGER, MARC, ANN R. BRADLOW, and PATRICK C. M. WONG. "Variability in the learning of complex morphophonology." Applied Psycholinguistics 35, no. 4 (December 10, 2012): 807–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716412000586.

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ABSTRACTThis paper explores how theories on the relationship between language and domain-general cognitive capabilities might account for individual variation in second language learning. We investigated the acquisition of a morphophonological grammar paired with standardized tests of memory function. The language learned had simple and complex morphophonological patterns of word formation, which are hypothesized to correlate with standardized measures of procedural and declarative memory, respectively. The results show a significant amount of variation in learning success is accounted for by these measures of memory in accordance with the hypothesis. These findings help explain why some adults are able to learn a second language more easily than others while also advancing a model of second language learning motivated by linguistic theory.

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De Jong, Daan, and Martin Hietbrink. "The morphophonology of the French prefix {RE}." Linguistics in the Netherlands 11 (October 6, 1994): 71–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.11.09dej.

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Buckley, Eugene. "Sound Mutations: The Morphophonology of Chaha (review)." Language 80, no. 2 (2004): 336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0057.

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Buckley, Eugene. "Sound Mutations: The Morphophonology of Chaha (review)." Language 80, no. 3 (2004): 613–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2004.0113.

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Ebarb, Kristopher J., and Michael R. Marlo. "Vowel length (in)sensitivity in Luyia morphophonology." Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 33, no. 3 (July 3, 2015): 373–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2015.1108772.

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Holes, Clive. "VARIATION IN THE MORPHOPHONOLOGY OF ARABIC DIALECTS." Transactions of the Philological Society 84, no. 1 (November 1986): 167–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968x.1986.tb01052.x.

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Harizanov, Boris. "Clitic doubling at the syntax-morphophonology interface." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32, no. 4 (July 2, 2014): 1033–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-014-9249-5.

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Wiese, Richard. "A Two-Level Approach to Morphological Structure." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 20, no. 3 (September 2008): 243–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147054270800010x.

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In morphological theory, various models have been developed with respect to the appropriate levels of abstraction for stating morphological generalizations. This paper addresses a class of seemingly marginal and/or problematic phenomena in morphology and proposes that morphological descriptions regularly refer to two distinct levels of description. One is the level of “morphosyntax,” and one is the level of “morphophonology.” Furthermore, morphology is considered to be marginal if and only if the degree of isomorphy between representations on these two levels is reduced. This basic proposal is illustrated and tested with several central phenomena of morphology found in German: synthetic compounds, conversion, empty morphs, and trun-cation. The analysis proposed here argues for the necessity of a two-level model of morphology as an approach in which both abstract morphosyntax as well as more concrete morphophonology have a place.*

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Ramasamy, Mohana Dass. "MORPHOPHONOLOGY OF TAMIL: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURES." Journal of Indian Studies 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 101–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jis.vol10no1.10.

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Daelemans, Walter. "A Model of Dutch Morphophonology and its Applications." AI Communications 1, no. 2 (1988): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/aic-1988-1203.

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de Chene, Brent. "On the (ir)regularity of Dunan verbal morphophonology." Journal of Japanese Linguistics 36, no. 2 (November 26, 2020): 253–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2020-2026.

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AbstractAgainst claims of Yamada, Pellard, and Shimoji (Yamada, Masahiro, Thomas Pellard & Michinori Shimoji. 2015. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan). In Patrick Heinrich, Shinshō Miyara & Michinori Shimoji (eds.), Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages, 449–478. Berlin: de Gruyter and Pellard, Thomas & Masahiro Yamada. 2017. Verb morphology and conjugation classes in Dunan (Yonaguni). In Ferenc Kiefer, James P. Blevins & Huba Bartos (eds.), Perspectives on morphological organization: Data and analyses, 31–49. Leiden: Brill), I argue that the verbal morphophonology of Dunan (Yonaguni) is in most respects systematic and rule-governed. I first identify the relatively low-level rules that govern the resolution of hiatus at stem boundary and then review stem and suffix alternations, showing that in each case there is only a limited amount of lexically listed allomorphy. After summarizing the proposed analysis and displaying representative derivations, I propose a set of principles on the basis of which the central elements of that analysis could be attained by language learners. Finally, I consider the reasons for the divergence between the conclusions reached here and those of Yamada, Pellard, and Shimoji, suggesting that an even more important factor than the unreceptiveness of those authors to the postulation of phonological rules is their skepticism about the concept of the morpheme.

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Jarmulowicz, Linda, and Sarah E. Hay. "Derivational Morphophonology: Exploring Errors in Third Graders' Productions." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 40, no. 3 (July 2009): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2008/08-0006).

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Marfo, Charles Ofosu. "THE MORPHOPHONOLOGY OF THE AKAN REDUPLICATED VERB-FORM." Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 6 (November 12, 2013): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/bjll.v6i0.143.

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This paper discusses the interaction between constituent formation and alteration of sounds (i.e., morphophonology) in Akan reduplicated verb-forms. Specifically, we strive to look into two issues; the morphology of reduplicated verb stems and how the morphological manifestation(s) affect certain target sounds. With its morphology, we observe that reduplication of the Akan verb-stem is generally total and, through the Morphological Doubling Theory (Inkelas 2005; Inkelas and Zoll 2005), reduplication of Akan verb-stems is viewed as the double (or multiple) occurrence of a morphological constituent meeting a particular morpho-semantic description. That is to say, while there could be differences in structure between the reduplicant and the base, they are subject to a common phonology that determines a resulting shape of an output. With morphophonology, we observe that three issues are relevant in the discussion of the phonology of the reduplicated verbs in Akan. These are the application of vowel harmony, vowel shift in terms of height, and the realization of tonal semblance. Through thorough discussions, the paper finally explains that reduplication of verb-stems in Akan is morphophonologically driven.

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Alderete, John D. "Dominance effects as transderivational anti-faithfulness." Phonology 18, no. 2 (August 2001): 201–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675701004067.

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This paper presents a theory of morphophonology based on a development in the theory of faithfulness in Optimality Theory. A new constraint type, anti-faithfulness, is proposed that evaluates a pair of related words and requires an alternation in the shared stem. This constraint type is motivated initially by a set of problems, e.g. morphological deletions, segmental exchanges and non-structure preserving processes, which show that morphophonology must encompass more than markedness–faithfulness interactions. The anti-faithfulness thesis is then applied to accentual processes in which affixes idiosyncratically cause deletion of accent in a neighbouring morpheme. It is argued that anti-faithfulness both motivates the observed deletion and accounts for its properties with principles that are generally available in phonological theory. Anti-faithfulness is then shown to extend naturally to the analysis of other affix-induced alternations, including accent insertions, shifts, and retractions of stress and tone, a result which distinguishes this theory from plausible alternatives.

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Michailovsky, Boyd. "STRUCTURE SYLLABIQUE ET VARIATION COMBINATOIRE : VOISEMENT ET GEMINATION EN LIMBU." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 15, no. 2 (April 26, 1986): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-90000433.

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In the phonology and morphophonology of Limbu (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal), we find what could be considered as rules of voicing (of stops) and gemination (of stops and nasals). The interpretation of these phenomena leads us to assign an independent role to the syllable boundary as part of the phonological environment conditioning the distribution of allophones.

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Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés. "Oroch uktä ‘Meat’, The Tungusic “Heteroclisis” and Analogical Morphophonology." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 43, no. 2 (October 9, 2014): 69–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-00432p01.

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Two of the most controversial issues in Tungusic historical linguistics are (1) the (unnatural) sound change *-ls- > -kt- in Oroch, and (2) the so-called Tungusic “heteroclisis”. The main goal of this paper is to provide a solution for (1) that involves (2). The rationale behind the link between (1) and (2) is provided by recent discussion on analogical morphophonology.

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Abakah, Emmanuel Nicholas. "On Tone and Morphophonology of the Akan Reduplication Construction." Journal of Universal Language 16, no. 1 (March 2015): 1–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22425/jul.2015.16.1.1.

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Kim, Yuni. "Vowel elision and the morphophonology of dominance in Aymara." Onomázein Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción, no. 33 (August 5, 2016): 367–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.33.21.

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Al-Hamad, M., E. Al-Malki, G. Casillas, Florencia Franceschina, Roger Hawkins, J. Hawthorne, D. Karadzovska, et al. "Interpretation of English tense morphophonology by advanced L2 speakers." EUROSLA Yearbook 2 (August 8, 2002): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.2.06alh.

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This study tests the assumption in much of the literature on the second language acquisition of English tense and aspect morphophonology (e.g. bare verbs, V-ing, V-ed) that once speakers are beyond intermediate levels of proficiency, both distribution and interpretation of these forms are represented in a target-like way in their mental grammars. Three groups of advanced non-native speakers (whose L1s were Chinese, Japanese and the verb-raising languages Arabic, French, German and Spanish) were compared with native speakers on an acceptability judgement task requiring informants to judge the appropriateness of sentences involving different verb forms to contexts which privileged specific interpretations. The results suggest an effect of the persistent influence of parametric differences between languages such that where parametrised grammatical properties are not activated in the L1, they are not available for the construction of representations in the L2.

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Vajda, Edward J. "The role of position class in Ket verb morphophonology." WORD 52, no. 3 (December 2001): 369–436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2001.11432519.

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Jarmulowicz, Linda, Sarah E. Hay, Valentina L. Taran, and Corinna A. Ethington. "Fitting derivational morphophonology into a developmental model of reading." Reading and Writing 21, no. 3 (June 15, 2007): 275–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-007-9073-y.

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Abakah, Emmanuel Nicholas. "On Tone and Morphophonology of the Akan Reduplication Construction." Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 8 (October 14, 2015): 21–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/bjll.v1i0.808.

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Reduplication in Akan has received some discussion in the literature but all the studies have concentrated on some aspects of segmental processes that operate on the base to generate the output. In this paper, we study the morphological, segmental and tonal processes related to reduplicative construction in Akan. We demonstrate that on the basis of tonal perturbations which bases and reduplicative templates undergo, and the output tone melody of the reduplicated form vis-à-vis the tone melody of the base, we are able to tell the base from the reduplicant in the Akan reduplicative structure. We argue in the central portions of this paper that the reduplicant in Akan could be either prefixed or suffixed to the base and, in the course of further reduplication construction, it could be sited within the two constituent tokens of the original reduplicative output which serves as an unmarked base for further reduplication. This piece of information counterexemplifies the assertion in the existing literature that in the Akan reduplication construction, the reduplicant is invariably prefixed to the base. In this paper, we study reduplication of verbs, adjectives, nouns, and lexical reduplication and demonstrate that words belonging to the same class behave tonally the same.

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ELŠÍK, VIKTOR. "Vowel length in Selice Romani: Phonology, morphophonology, and diachrony." Romani Studies 32, no. 2 (December 2022): 185–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/rost.2022.10.

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Longworth, C. E., W. D. Marslen-Wilson, B. Randall, and L. K. Tyler. "Getting to the Meaning of the Regular Past Tense: Evidence from Neuropsychology." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17, no. 7 (July 2005): 1087–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0898929054475109.

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Neuropsychological impairments of English past tense processing inform a key debate in cognitive neuroscience concerning the nature of mental mechanisms. Dual-route accounts claim that regular past tense comprehension deficits reflect a specific impairment of morphological decomposition (e.g., jump + ed), disrupting the automatic comprehension of word meaning accessed via the verb stem (e.g., jump). Single-mechanism accounts claim that the deficits reflect a general phonological impairment that affects perception of regular past tense offsets but which might preserve normal activation of verb semantics. We tested four patients with regular past tense deficits and matched controls, using a paired auditory semantic priming/lexical decision task with three conditions: uninflected verbs (hope/wish), regular past tense primes (blamed/accuse), and irregular past tense primes (shook/tremble). Both groups showed significant priming for verbs with simple morphophonology (uninflected verbs and irregular past tenses) but the patients showed no priming for verbs with complex morphophonology (regular past tenses) in contrast to controls. The findings suggest that the patients are delayed in activating the meaning of verbs if a regular past tense affix is appended, consistent with a dual-route account of their deficit.

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Green, Christopher R., and Michelle E. Morrison. "On the morphophonology of domains in Somali verbs and nouns." Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10, no. 2 (December 10, 2018): 200–237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01002002.

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Abstract Morphemes involved in the formation of Somali verbs and nouns are, in most instances, clearly individuated into categories corresponding to their role in word formation. Verbs contain a base, derivational extensions, inflectional affixes, and clitics that attach in a fixed order. Nouns also contain a base and derivational affixes, but little inflectional morphology. Indeed, both parts of speech have similar morphological templates in Somali, but the relationship between the language’s morphological domains and prosodic domains has only recently become a subject of detailed inquiry. We add to this ongoing trend by illustrating in this paper that there are close correlations between these domains in the language’s verbal and nominal systems that can be elucidated by morphophonological processes; certain processes occur only in a particular prosodic domain, and these process/domain combinations are similar in both the nominal and verbal systems. By establishing diagnostic phenomena attributable to phrase-level domains, this paper fills a gap between recent works focused only on defining prosodic characteristics of Somali words (Downing & Nilsson 2017; Green & Morrison 2016) and the accentual behavior of Somali clauses (Le Gac 2002, 2003a, b).

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FACE, TIMOTHY L. "Issues in Spanish Morphophonology: Implications for Language Acquisitionby CASTRO, OBDULIA." Modern Language Journal 92, no. 2 (June 2008): 343–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2008.00729_19.x.

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ZAMUNER, TANIA S., ANNEMARIE KERKHOFF, and PAULA FIKKERT. "Phonotactics and morphophonology in early child language: Evidence from Dutch." Applied Psycholinguistics 33, no. 3 (August 4, 2011): 481–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716411000440.

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ABSTRACTThis research investigates children's knowledge of how surface pronunciations of lexical items vary according to their phonological and morphological context. Dutch-learning children aged 2.5 and 3.5 years were tested on voicing neutralization and morphophonological alternations. For instance, voicing does not alternate between the pair [pɛt]~[pɛtən] (cap~caps) but does in [bɛt]~[bɛdən] (bed~beds). Data from the first experiment showed that children at a younger age were less accurate at imitating words with /d/ than /t/, regardless of morphological context. In a second study, children between 2 and 4 years were asked to produce singulars from novel plurals (e.g., [kɛtən]~[kɛt] and [kɛdən]~[kɛt]). Results indicated that children's performance was better in contexts that did not require surface variation. Dutch-learning children are not able to robustly generalize their knowledge of phonotactics and morphophonological alternations. Rather, it appears that their knowledge is more concrete, in line with recent usage-based theories of acquisition.

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Reynolds, Robert, Laura Janda, and Tore Nesset. "A cognitive linguistic approach to analysis and correction of orthographic errors." Russian Journal of Linguistics 26, no. 2 (June 29, 2022): 391–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-30122.

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In this paper, we apply usage-based linguistic analysis to systematize the inventory of orthographic errors observed in the writing of non-native users of Russian. The data comes from a longitudinal corpus (560K tokens) of non-native academic writing. Traditional spellcheckers mark errors and suggest corrections, but do not attempt to model why errors are made. Our approach makes it possible to recognize not only the errors themselves, but also the conceptual causes of these errors, which lie in misunderstandings of Russian phonotactics and morphophonology and the way they are represented by orthographic conventions. With this linguistically-based system in place, we can propose targeted grammar explanations that improve users’ command of Russian morphophonology rather than merely correcting errors. Based on errors attested in the non-native academic writing corpus, we introduce a taxonomy of errors, organized by pedagogical domains. Then, on the basis of this taxonomy, we create a set of mal-rules to expand an existing finite-state analyzer of Russian. The resulting morphological analyzer tags wordforms that fit our taxonomy with specific error tags. For each error tag, we also develop an accompanying grammar explanation to help users understand why and how to correct the diagnosed errors. Using our augmented analyzer, we build a webapp to allow users to type or paste a text and receive detailed feedback and correction on common Russian morphophonological and orthographic errors.

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Tsang, Yiu-Kei. "Morphophonological activation in Chinese word recognition." Mental Lexicon 16, no. 2-3 (December 31, 2021): 240–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.21003.tsa.

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Abstract The role of morphophonology during Chinese visual word recognition was investigated in three masked priming lexical decision experiments. The primes and targets were Cantonese Chinese bimorphemic words. In Chinese, most characters correspond to morphemes, but sometimes the mapping between character and morpheme is not one-to-one. Specifically, some characters are heteronymic, which had one visual form associated with multiple pronunciations and meanings (e.g., “長” is pronounced as /coeng4/ and /zoeng2/ in Cantonese, which means “long” and “senior”, respectively). In Experiment 1, facilitative priming was found when the primes and targets shared heteronymic characters of identical (e.g., “長遠-long term” /coeng4jyun5/ and “長短-length” /coeng4dyun2/), but not a different, pronunciation (e.g., “長官-senior official” /zoeng2gun1/). Sharing word-level phonology only (e.g., “場景-scene” /coeng4ging2/) had no effects. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1, and further indicated that the effects could not be attributed to sharing word-level meanings (e.g., “即時-immediate” /zik1si4/). Experiment 3 compared the priming effects produced by the two alternative pronunciations of the heteronymic characters. The results showed that the strength of priming was statistically comparable in the two pronunciation-congruent conditions. Together, this study provided evidence that morphophonology was activated to facilitate the ambiguity resolution of heteronymic characters. The lemma model was modified to accommodate the results.

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OBENG, SAMUEL GYASI. "From morphophonology to sociolinguistics: The case of Akan hypocoristic day-names." Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 16, no. 1 (1997): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mult.1997.16.1.39.

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de Chene, Brent. "Description and explanation in morphophonology: the case of Japanese verb inflection." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 25, no. 1 (August 29, 2015): 37–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-015-9137-y.

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Tolstaya, Svetlana. "Proto-Slavic verbs with the prefix *ob-/o-: morphophonology, derivation, semantics." Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, no. 3 (2019): 333–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2658-3372.2019.3.10.

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The article examines Proto-Slavic verbs with the prefix *ob-/o-, which was reconstructed in the Etymological dictionary of the Slavic languages (issue 26– 31). The author comes to the conclusion that the original morphophonological principle of the prefix distribution (ob- before root vowels and sonorants, obefore obstruents) had already been defied in the Late Proto-Slavic language under the influence of two main factors: derivational and semantic ones. Words formed from nouns retained the original distribution more consistently than those derived form verbs. The deviation from the rule in the latter (in particular, the appearance of the allomorph ob- before obstruents) is associated with certain semantic types (the semantics of circular motion, whole coverage, distribution and others), which started taking the variant ob- in contrast to the variant oassociated with other semantic types.

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Yeverechyahu, Hadas, and Outi Bat-El. "Biblical Hebrew segholates." Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 12, no. 1 (June 18, 2020): 31–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01201002.

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Abstract Most studies agree that the input (i.e. the base) of a segholate paradigm in Biblical Hebrew is prosodically CVCC. However, such an input leads to an analysis that does not comply with universal typology of vowel strength, an analysis where vowel alternation not only affects a strong (stressed) position but also triggered by a (weak) epenthetic vowel. In this paper, we provide an alternative analysis, which postulates the surface singular form as the input of the paradigm and eliminates the unnatural nature of the morphophonology of segholates.

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Cychnerski, Tomasz. "Syntagmatyka morfotaktyczna i morfonologiczna rumuńskich rzeczowników odczasownikowych." Slavia Meridionalis 13 (May 1, 2015): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/sm.2013.004.

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Morphotactic and morphophonological syntagmatics of the Romanian verbal nounsThis paper tries to formulate a working hypothesis concerning the general morphological structure of the Romanian verbal nouns. Its first part consists in the analysis of the verbal nouns morphophonology. Some basic types of the syntagmatic structure are presented here for each morphological part of these words (root, prefixes, suffixes, inflections, interfixes). The second part is a morphotactic analysis of the forty verbal nouns. There are the nine general types of the syntagmatic structure formulated for the whole set of these Romanian lexemes.

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Cser, András. "The lowering of high vowels before [r] in Latin." Papers in Historical Phonology 5 (June 4, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/pihph.5.2020.4416.

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This paper discusses a putative sound change in the early history of Latin and synchronic alternations apparently related to it. The lowering of short high vowels before the rhotic is problematic on several counts; so much so that serious doubt has been cast on its reality. On the other hand, due to widespread alternations in the morphophonology of Classical Latin it is reasonable to assume that such a lowering operated as a synchronic rule at that stage. A minor asymmetry in the relevant alternations of verbal affixes in infectum-based vs. perfectum-based formations presents an interesting problem to which I suggest two tentative explanations.

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De Chene, Brent. "Sanskrit nominal stem gradation without morphomes." Word Structure 15, no. 1 (March 2022): 28–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2022.0198.

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It is proposed that the alternations ā ∼ a and a ∼ Ø in the stem-final syllable of Sanskrit nominals such as rā´jān- ‘king’ and dātār- ‘giver’ are due to rules of shortening and syncope. If so, those alternations provide no support, contrary to claims in the literature, for a framework in which stem alternants are associated with “morphomic indices” by stem-indexing rules and, more generally, no support for a purely morphological level of representation mediating between morphosyntax and morphophonology. To the contrary, it is claimed, postulation of such a level in the Sanskrit case both complicates the grammatical architecture needlessly and obstructs the statement of phonological generalizations.

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Carlson, Matthew T., and Chip Gerfen. "Productivity is the Key: Morphophonology and the Riddle of Alternating Diphthongs in Spanish." Language 87, no. 3 (2011): 510–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2011.0054.

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Gerber, Pascal. "Verb stem alternation in Gongduk." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 23, no. 2 (March 29, 2022): 240–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00105.ger.

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Abstract This paper provides a first overview of verb stem alternation in Gongduk (eastern Bhutan, Trans-Himalayan). Verb stem alternation in Gongduk is conditioned both by morphophonology and by grammatical categories. This paper presents both the morphophonologically transparent as well as the phonologically opaque, paradigmatic stem alternation. The analysis provided in this paper identifies seven verb classes and a small number of irregular verbs. Additionally, this paper provides some diachronic observations on Gongduk verb stems and shows that different stem classes of Gongduk preserve derivational morphology (valence, direction) with cognates in other branches of the language family. Gongduk therefore provides important evidence for the historical investigation of derivational morphology and verb stem alternation in Trans-Himalayan.

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