Open AccessBinarity in Prosodic Morphology and Elsewhere
Author(s) -
Gloria Mellesmoen,
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meetings on phonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-3324
DOI - 10.3765/amp.v9i0.4924
Subject(s) - reduplication , coalescence (physics) , binary number , morphology (biology) , branching (polymer chemistry) , linguistics , computer science , astrophysics , mathematics , physics , arithmetic , biology , astronomy , paleontology , philosophy , materials science , composite material
This paper explores the role of binarity in prosodic morphology by proposing that all representations are maximally binary branching, as stated in (1).(1) Binarity Hypothesis: All representations are maximally binary branching.Our evidence comes from examining patterns in which fission (Integrity violations) and fusion (Uniformity violations) of segments satisfies morphological and phonological constraints: multiple reduplication, haplology, coalescence, and breaking. Where there appears to be 1:3 or a 3:1 mapping between input and output segments, we propose that this must arise from two separate 1:2 or 2:1 mappings (perhaps at a stem and word level). We illustrate that a number of seemingly complex patterns of multiple reduplication in Salish, Wakashan and Uto-Aztecan languages follow naturally from the Binarity Hypothesis.