Aggressive reduplication and dissimilation in Sundanese

Authors

  • Juliet Stanton NYU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v2art5.25

Keywords:

dissimilation, aggressive reduplication, phonotactics, lexical statistics

Abstract

Most cases of long-distance consonant dissimilation can be characterized as local (occurring across a vowel) or unbounded (occurring at all distances). The only known exception is rhotic dissimilation in Sundanese (Cohn 1992; Bennett 2015a,b), which applies in certain non-local contexts only. Following a suggestion by Zuraw (2002:433), I show that the pattern can be analyzed in a co-occurrence-based framework (Suzuki 1998) by invoking two unbounded co-occurrence constraints, *[r]…[r] and *[l]…[l], whose effects in local contexts are obscured by a drive for identity between adjacent syllables. Statistical trends in the lexicon are consistent with this analysis. I compare the predictions of this analysis to those of Bennett’s (2015a,b) and suggest that the present proposal is preferable.

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Published

2020-09-05

How to Cite

Stanton, Juliet. 2020. “Aggressive Reduplication and Dissimilation in Sundanese”. Phonological Data and Analysis 2 (5):1–35. https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v2art5.25.