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Prosodic fusion and minimality in Kabardian*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2010

Matthew Gordon  and
Ayla Applebaum
Matthew Gordon
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ayla Applebaum
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

The Northwest Caucasian language Kabardian displays a typologically unusual process of word formation, whereby two lexical roots fuse to form a single prosodic word whose phonological behaviour is parallel to prosodic words containing a single root. It is shown that this process of fusion, which is subject to a number of phonological and morphosyntactic restrictions, reflects a typologically unusual response to a cross-linguistically common minimal word requirement banning monomoraic prosodic words. Rather than employing segmental lengthening or insertion to ensure that minimality is satisfied, Kabardian chooses to violate the one-to-one mapping between grammatical and prosodic words. A further complication is the scalar nature of minimality in Kabardian: while the impossibility of fusion in certain prosodic and morphosyntactic contexts allows monomoraic prosodic words to surface, a more stringent minimality restriction ensures that all prosodic words have at least one mora.

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Phonology , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , May 2010 , pp. 45 - 76
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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