Contribution to Book
Prosodic Morphology
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
(2020)
Abstract
The phrase ‘prosodic morphology’ refers to a class of linguistic phenomena in which prosodic structure affects morphological form. These phenomena include reduplication, infixation, root-and-pattern morphology, and truncation. A key notion in the analysis of prosodic morphology is the prosodic template, a type of morpheme that consists of a prosodic unit devoid of segmental structure. The filling of the template with segmental material from a basic word produces a morphologically derived word. For example, in Ilokano the prosodic template consists of a heavy syllable. It is filled reduplicatively, by copying the segments from the singular noun sufficient to create a heavy syllable: pusa ‘cat’, pus-pusa ‘cats’.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Editor
Carlos Gussenhoven and Aoju Chen
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation Information
John J. McCarthy. "Prosodic Morphology" OxfordThe Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody (2020) p. 96 - 103 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_j_mccarthy/115/