This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon
whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll …

The current paper provides a survey of current studies on the adaptation of
suprasegmentals, ie, tone, pitch accent, and stress. Tone and pitch accent languages have a …

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new
subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for …

This paper presents results of a phonological and phonetic study of stress in Chickasaw, a
Muskogean language spoken in south central Oklahoma. Three degrees of stress are …

Reduplication, a phenomenon in which some phonological structure appears to be repeated
for some morphological or grammatical purpose, has long been an area of significant …

Abstract Pima (Uto-Aztecan, central Arizona) pluralizes nouns via partial reduplication. The
amount of material copied varies between a single C (mavit/ma-m-vit 'lion (s)') and CV …

This paper makes a typological contribution by describing a stress system that uses syllabic
trochees while also displaying characteristics more typically associated with a quantity …

Abstract This dissertation introduces Minimal Reduplication, a new theory and framework
within generative grammar for analyzing reduplication in human language. I argue that …

According to the first paper on the subject, Cook (1972), stress assignment in Tahltan
(Northern Athabaskan) is governed by both morphological and phonological principles …

In this paper, I describe and analyze a novel pattern of secondary stress in Tohono
O'odham. Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) assigns primary stress to the first …