Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese

Vietnamese reduplication shows harmony in tone height between base and reduplicant. This paper presents statistical analysis of productive reduplication in southern Vietnamese, which, unlike northern Vietnamese, has only one C tone and phonation of creakiness is not phonemically present. Our main fi...

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Main Authors:	Andrea Hoa Pham, Andrew Anh Pham
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Hawaii Press 2020-09-01
Series:	Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Subjects:	vietnamese reduplication tones tone-register harmony
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52470

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spelling	doaj-ece54e3ed4df44c493a45c34dbb8f56d2020-11-25T02:54:21ZengUniversity of Hawaii PressJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society1836-68211836-68212020-09-01132ixProductive Reduplication in Southern VietnameseAndrea Hoa Pham0Andrew Anh Pham1University of FloridaQueen’s UniversityVietnamese reduplication shows harmony in tone height between base and reduplicant. This paper presents statistical analysis of productive reduplication in southern Vietnamese, which, unlike northern Vietnamese, has only one C tone and phonation of creakiness is not phonemically present. Our main findings show that reduplicative forms with tone-register harmony are used significantly less often than forms without and that the syllabic structure correlates with tone-register harmony preference.http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52470vietnamesereduplicationtonestone-register harmony
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title	Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese
title_short	Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese
title_full	Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese
title_fullStr	Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese
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publisher	University of Hawaii Press
series	Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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publishDate	2020-09-01
description	Vietnamese reduplication shows harmony in tone height between base and reduplicant. This paper presents statistical analysis of productive reduplication in southern Vietnamese, which, unlike northern Vietnamese, has only one C tone and phonation of creakiness is not phonemically present. Our main findings show that reduplicative forms with tone-register harmony are used significantly less often than forms without and that the syllabic structure correlates with tone-register harmony preference.
topic	vietnamese reduplication tones tone-register harmony
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Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese

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