Consonant identity and consonant copy: The segmental and prosodic structure of Hebrew reduplication

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-210

  Bat El, Outi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hebrew; Morphological parsing; Optimality Theory; Prosodic structure; Reduplication; Segmental identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646553941     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2006.37.2.179     Document Type: Article

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