This ebook provides a phenomenon-oriented survey of the interplay among phonology and morphology. It examines the ways that morphology, i.e. observe formation, demonstrates sensitivity to phonological details and the way phonological styles may be delicate to morphology. Chapters specialize in morphologically conditioned phonology, procedure morphology, prosodic templates, reduplication, infixation, phonology-morphology interleaving results, prosodic-morphological
mismatches, ineffability, and different situations of phonology-morphology interplay. The review discusses the relevance of a number of phenomena for theoretical matters within the box. those contain the talk over item-based vs. realizational techniques to morphology; the query of no matter if cyclic effects
can be subsumed below paradigmatic results; even if reduplication is phonological copying or morphological doubling; no matter if infixation and suppletive allomorphy are phonologically optimizing, and extra. The ebook is meant for use in graduate or complicated undergraduate classes or as a reference for these pursuing person issues within the phonology-morphology interface.
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