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apply. For example, /= = =/ = ‘mouth’ + /@= @= @=/ @= ‘house’ → =@= =@= =@= =@= ‘door’ (*===@= ===@= ===@=). ===@= In
words with a VCV pattern where the two vowels are distinct, this reduction is not
observed in compounding, e.g. /= = = = /
‘person’ + /(>( (>( (>(/ (>( ‘flesh’ → = = = = >( >( >( >( ‘relative’.
One additional comment regarding SRA is in order. There is one case where SRA
appears to overapply. Nouns which contain a CV1LV1 pattern usually have the word
shape V1CV1LV1 rather than CV1LV1. Thus, the word for ‘bridge’ is =C>=H= =C>=H=, =C>=H= not *C>=H= C>=H= C>=H=. C>=H=
Since the form *C>=H= C>=H= is bisyllabic, it should satisfy the word minimality condition.
However, the trisyllabic form is the one that is attested rather than the bisyllabic form.
We can account for this pattern by appealing to a suggestion made in Chapter 5 that the
underlying form of such words is /CLV/. Thus the underlying form of =C>=H= =C>=H= =C>=H= would be
/C>H=/. In a rule-based account, the ordering of SRA before vowel epenthesis (example 2
in Chapter 5) would lead to the correct output form:
(8) UR /C>H=/
SRA =C>H=
V-epenthesis =C>=H=
SR [=C>=H=]
Descriptive adjectives. Descriptive adjectives in Mono pattern like nouns with
respect to word shapes. Criteria for defining this category will be discussed in Section
7.1.1. Adjectives spoken in isolation have the same word shapes as nouns:
(9) Word shapes of Mono adjectives
VCV (J5( (J5( (J5( (J5(
‘good’
CVCV J=B J=B J=B J=B
‘new’
VCVCV A(CA(H( A(CA(H( A(CA(H( A(CA(H(
‘big’
CVCVCV @==J= @==J= @==J= @==J=
‘true’
F=DK(HK F=DK(HK F=DK(HK F=DK(HK
‘large, massive’ (Kamanda 1998: 683)
VCVCVCV —
CVCVCVCV FHJ FHJ FHJ FHJ ‘black’
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