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The Phonology of Reduplication

By Ronnie Wilbur

The Indiana University Linguistics Club announces a limited reissuing of Ronnie Wilbur's University of Illinois PhD dissertation entitled The Phonology of Reduplication in its original, unrevised form. This dissertation was originally distributed by the IULC in 1973. Since its appearance, Wilbur's dissertation has had continual theoretical significance. In The Phonology of Reduplication Wilbur documents cases of under- and over-application of rules to reduplicative forms and the problems they present for rule ordering. She foreshadows current work in Optimality Theory by rejecting rule ordering and developing a notion akin to reduplicative Base-Reduplicant identity. Wilbur's dissertation has played an important role in the rule ordering debates of the 1970s, in the development of reduplication theory within Prosodic Morphology during the 1980s, and in the current emergence of Correspondence Theory. In light of the insights it provides to current theory, the author has generously allowed a limited re-issue. You can own this classic work for the incredibly low price of $6.50, Please hurry, copies are limited and expected to go fast.

87 pages
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