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The emergence of the unmarked (TETU) is a notion introduced by John McCarthy & Alan Prince (1994) to account for the fact that reduplicants are often less marked (& less faithful) than are bases & unreduplicated words. Kwakwala (Wakashan, British Columbia) syllable lightening indicates, however, that bases can be less faithful to the input than are reduplicants, although unreduplicated words remain more faithful. Thus, two types emerge: reduplicant TETU, in which the reduplicant alone shows phonological changes, & output TETU, in which either base or reduplicant undergoes changes. A new model of correspondence is proposed such that root faithfulness & broad input-output faithfulness are in a subset relation. Root Faithfulness as proposed by Jill Beckman (1997) accounts for roots being more salient & retaining greater contrast than do nonroot morphemes. Output TETU results when a markedness constraint such as *CLASH requires change in only one of the base-reduplicant pair. It is concluded that the only type of positional faithfulness needed to account for faithfulness in TETU is root faithfulness. 26 References. L. Lagerquist

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