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Itelmen reduplication: Edge-In association and lexical stratification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2006

JONATHAN DAVID BOBALJIK
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

Abstract

Reduplication patterns in Itelmen (Chukotko-Kamchatkan) present a prima facie challenge to the view that association in partial reduplication is always Edge-In (Yip 1988, McCarthy & Prince 1996). Closer investigation suggests that Itelmen reduplication may in fact be total copying, masked by an apocope rule. This solution is not obvious, however, as the apocope rule must be limited to ‘core’ or ‘native’ vocabulary. While Russian loans are reasonably transparent, the analysis requires making a distinction between cognates and loans from related Koryak, a distinction speakers are not consciously aware of. Positing that this distinction is part of the synchronic phonology provides a solution to other apparently unrelated phonological puzzles in the language. In addition to removing an apparent counter-example to universal Edge-In association, the proposals made here may also provide a small argument for the lexical stratification model of loanword phonology over a purely representational alternative.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am first and foremost grateful to the speakers of Itelmen who have shared their language with me, especially to N. I. Chatkina, A. D. Ivashova, L. E. Pravdoshchina and [dagger]V. I. Uspenskaya (Sedanka-Tigil), and [dagger]T. E. Guterova, [dagger]V. D. Zaporotskaja, G. D. Zaporotskij, [dagger]V. P. Krasnoyarev and [dagger]D. N. Zhirkov (Kovran). I also owe a great debt to the pioneering work of A. P. Volodin on Itelmen grammar. I would like to thank Glyne Piggott for many discussions of the material presented here; I have also benefited from comments from Ellen Broselow, Michael Fortescue, Heather Goad, Susi Wurmbrand, Cheryl Zoll, the participants of the 2002 Montreal–Ottawa–Toronto Phonology Workshop, and the students in my 2002 Structure of Itelmen seminar at McGill, in addition to two anonymous JL referees. Of course, all errors or misrepresentations are my responsibility. Funding for this research was provided by McGill University and by SSHRC research grant #410-2002-0581.