ABSTRACT
Copying roots and syllables, expanding bases to be a metrical foot in size, deleting part of a syllable, shifting stress, prefixing or suffixing to internal metrical feet, and modifying vowels and consonants are just a few of the word-formation patterns found throughout the Indigenous languages of North America. These patterns can broadly be understood as morphology that is shaped by prosody: prosodic morphology. This chapter provides an overview of these patterns, along with a discussion of how less common patterns such as deletion and metathesis have challenged models of morphology that are primarily additive (concatenative). A second focus of the chapter is to examine the role prosodic templates have played in accounting for the patterns found.
