Each reduplicative morpheme is specified as either root or affix, and exhibits canonical properties such as shape and segmental content.
Constraints interact to derive the 'emergent' templates.
In each case the root is more marked than the affix reduplicant. This dissertation principally addresses questions of the featural content of liquids along with the hierarchical relations among those features. While traditional analyses have used manner features to distinguish among liquid consonants, Walsh Dickey demonstrates that rhotics and laterals are instead defined and differentiated by complexes of Coronal and Dorsal place features. Both the presentation and the analysis of data are conducted within an easily accessible generative framework. The interaction of phonology and morphology is described in terms of the theory of Lexical Morphology and Phonology.