Reduplication: Hard Morphology

• Two-level morphology

  RE+pili -> pi0pili

  C-Reduplication

  R:{p, t, k} => __ E:V +:0 {p, t, k}

  

• Simple recurrent network
  • Recognition requires capacity to compare subsequences of varying length.
  • Production requires capacity to reproduce subsequences of varying length.
  • Neither of these appears to be possible.

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