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Reduplication in Ewe:morphological accommodation to phonological errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Joseph Paul Stemberger  and
Marshall Lewis
Joseph Paul Stemberger
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Marshall Lewis
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Abstract

Speech errors have often been used to support the psychological reality of phonologically dependent allomorphy in inflectional rules. The phenomenon of morphological accommodation to phonological errors is the most compelling evidence of this sort. We investigate reduplication in Ewe, experimentally inducing phonological errors to see whether reduplicated forms show accommodation. This was the case. Implications for reduplication in Ewe and for models of language production are discussed.

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Research Article
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Phonology , Volume 3 , May 1986 , pp. 151 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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Footnotes

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This work was supported in part by NIH Training Grant NS-7134-06 to Indiana University. It was done while the first author was a postdoc in Dave Pisoni's Speech Perception Laboratory. Address reprint requests to Joseph Stemberger (see list of contributors).

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