Introduction

The effect of LDC-spreading is thus to create a copy of a segment over intervening segmental material, an effect similar to that found in the

phenomenon of reduplication. Similarity notwithstanding, LDC-spreading and reduplication have been attributed to unrelated mechanisms of the theory. In LDC-spreading, copying is the apparent effect of double linking of a single consonant to two skeletal positions. In reduplication, copying literally creates a second instance of a consonant. The two mechanisms exist within different components of the grammar, LDC-spreading in the phonological and reduplication in the morphological component.