Non- Prototypical Reduplication in Odia

Suhasini Dash

doi:10.34256/ijll2131

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DOI: 10.34256/ijll2131

Non- Prototypical Reduplication in Odia

Suhasini Dash⁺⁻

Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Telangana 500007, India.

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Suhasini Dash

Suhasini Dash is a PhD scholar in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her research interest lies in the phonology and morphology of Odia (an Indo Aryan Language spoken in the eastern state of Odisha). She primarily uses the Optimality Theoretic framework in her research. There has not been much work done in Odia with regards to phonology and morpho-phonology and she aims to change that and in the process contribute to a more lucid understanding of her mother tongue from a linguistic perspective. She has presented papers in both national and international conferences in order to shed light on the same.

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The paper discusses in detail echo formations and expressives found in the Odia language and the strategies for forming them. The complex semantic structure as well as the wide semantic and conceptual space they occupy, make them complex categories that have been ignored both by Western and Asian linguists because they are a prototypical grammatical feature not fitting the traditional grammar writing (Abbi, 2018). Odia has morphological fixed segmentism with the variants /ph/ and /m/. Morphological fixed segmentism is a kind of affixation, and so it resembles affixing morphology generally.

[ɡaɽɪ > ɡaɽɪ phaɽɪ ‘car and other transport’ ; ʧɪra > ʧɪra mɪra ‘ torn and such’ ]

This paper endeavours to find the reason behind this particular choice of phonemes by Odia speakers. Furthermore, the paper investigates if Odia base-reduplicant structures follow the Syllable Contact Law (Vennemann, 1988). According to the Syllable Contact Law, sonority should fall across syllable boundaries. This paper proves that Odia base-reduplicant structures follow the Syllable Contact Law as rise in sonority across syllable boundaries is a marked feature in Odia.’

Keywords

Odia, Reduplication, Echo words, Expressive, Fixed segmentism, Sonority,

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