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Transderivational Relationships in Chamorro Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Sandra Chung
Sandra Chung*
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University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

The Saipan dialect of Chamorro displays certain transderivational relationships that hold optionally between complex words and the non-complex forms from which they are derived. These relationships are examined, and it is argued that phonological theory must either allow optionally-cyclic rule application, or else recognize a class of transderivational phenomena for which the cycle cannot account.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 35 - 66
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Copyright © 1983 by Linguistic Society of America

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