Monosyllabic reduplicative affixation in Mbe, where the amount of material
copied is predetermined by a subsequent phonological change, presents for
the serial templatic approach to reduplication a lookahead problem that the
parallel counterpart can successfully capture with global evaluation of
phonotactic constraints. I propose, however, that serial reduplication in
Kavalan and Ilokano suggests that the lookahead effect is epiphenomenal and
derivable if foot binarity is respected at the moraic level. Therefore, the
prima facie lookahead in Mbe might no longer be probative in the assessment
of the parallel versus serial theory of reduplication.
Best,
*KC Lin **(he/him/his)*
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