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Reduplication and syllable transfer in Sanskrit and elsewhere*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Donca Steriade
Donca Steriade
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The phenomenon studied in this paper is the correspondence between the syllabic position of segments copied in reduplication and the syllabic position of their base counterparts. I will document this correlation and propose a model of reduplication that explains it.

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Phonology , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , May 1988, pp. 73 - 155
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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