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Prosodic morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986 et seq.) is a theory of how morphological and phonological determinants of linguistic form interact with one another in a grammatical system. More specifically, it is a theory of how prosodic structure impinges on templatic and circumscriptional morphology, such as reduplication and infixation. There are three essential claims: (1)  Principles of Prosodic Morphology (a) Prosodic Morphology Hypothesis Templates are defined in terms of the authentic units of prosody: mora (μ), syllable (σ), foot (F), prosodic word (PrWd). (b) Template Satisfaction Condition Satisfaction of templatic constraints in obligatory and is detrmined by the principles of prosody, both universal and language-specific. (c) Prosodic Circumscription The domain to which morphological operations apply may be circumscribed by prosodic criteria as well as by the more familiar morphological ones. In short, the theory of prosodic morphology says that templates and circumscription must be formulated in terms of the vocabulary of prosody and must respect the well-formedness requirements of prosody. Earlier proposals for including prosody in templatic morphology include McCarthy (1979), Nash (1980, p. 139), Marantz (1982), Yip (1982, 1983), Levin (1983), Broselow and McCarthy (1983), Archangeli (1983, 1984), McCarthy (1984a, 1984b), and Lowenstamm and Kaye (1986). Prosodic ... log in or subscribe to read full text