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Monomoraic Syllables with Non-moraic Vowels in Salish: The Structure of a Monomoraic Syllable in Comox-Sliammon Reduplication
Gloria Mellesmoen
435-441 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper presents a phonological analysis of progressive C1 and plural/pluractional C1C2 reduplication in Comox-Sliammon (Salish) within the Generalized Nonlinear Affixation framework. Specifically, this paper shows that the inventory of prosodic categories must be expanded to account for monomoraic syllables with non-moraic nuclei. In order to derive an open monomoraic syllable for progressive reduplication and a closed monomoraic syllable for plural/pluractional reduplication, the underlying representation of the plural/pluractional reduplication must be an affixed syllable with both a nucleus node and a mora. More broadly, this paper provides empirical evidence for the inclusion of the nucleus as a unit in prosodic structure to account for closed monomoraic syllables, which are common in Salish languages.

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Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
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