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Sun, Pei-Ran & Chung, Chin-Wan. (2022). A constraint-based approach to fission reduplication in two Chinese dialects. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 30(3), 63-87. This study focuses on the emergence of the unmarked (TETU) concerning syllabic structure and segmental features in the base of two Chinese dialects like Shunping and Pingyao. Partial reduplication generally exhibits intriguing TETUs in the reduplicant. In Shunping, the onglide and a vowel simplify into a simple vowel while a coda consonant deletes in the base. This shows structural TETU in the base: no diphthong and a closed syllable. The reduplicant in Shunping implies the prevocalic glide belongs to the rime. The segmental content of the rime in the reduplicant comes from the input. This shows a direct correspondent relation between the input and the reduplicant. In Pingyao, the rime excluding a prevocalic glide in the base is replaced by a fixed [-ʌʔ]. The rime including the prevocalic glide in the input is copied; the copied part appears after the fixed onset in the reduplicant. The base segments display two TETUs. One is related to the consonantal place features of the coda, and the other is with a reduced fixed vowel. However, the prevocalic glide seems to affiliate neither with the onset nor the rime. The Pingyao dialects also demonstrate direct correspondence relations between the input and the reduplicant. To account for the variant implementations of TETU, we adopt the full reduplication model proposed by McCarthy and Prince (1995), and put forth the constraint ranking schema for the TETU in two Chinese dialects. |