Revisiting the Lookahead Effect in Mbe Reduplication

Kuo-Chiao Lin

Abstract


Due to its inherent nature of gradualness, Serial Template Satisfaction (STS, McCarthy et al. 2012) does not predict the existence of derivational lookahead, which is admitted by Base-Reduplicant (BR) Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995). In this regard, Wei & Walker (2020) show that STS cannot tackle the lookahead pattern in Mbe reduplication, where the amount of material copied is predetermined by a subsequent phonological change. This paper, however, offers an STS solution to resolve the derivational lookahead problem in Mbe.  


Keywords


reduplication, Serial Template Satisfaction, Harmonic Serialism, Optimality Theory

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.5132

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