Re: THEORY: Reduplication

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > John McCarthy and Alan Prince have a now classic OT paper
> > called "Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity" which can be
> > accessed here in .PDF format:
> >
> > <http://home.uchicago.edu/~goh/coursefiles/phon2_02.html>
>
> >From the same page there is a link to a 4-page PDF called
> "Unusual Syllable Structure:CCCCConsonant CCCCClusters" which
> gives some spectacular examples thereof.
Yes! My favorite consonant cluster is (10b) listed there:

(10b) xl-p'x_wl-tl-pl-l-sk_wts'
     'Then he had in his possession a bunchberry plant'

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