Relation of child to adult templates, I
This chapter reviews uses of the concept of templates in the literature on core grammar, beginning with the classic studies of Arabic plural formation in Prosodic Morphology, framed in terms of the ‘authentic units of prosody’. The author provides Good’s (2016) broad definition of templates within his typological approach, with an extended example from Tiene, and additional illustrations from Inkelas’ (2014) account of templates at the interface of phonology and morphology, including the inflectional but somewhat unpredictable patterning of the comparative/superlative morphemes in English. The chapter then provides an account of prosodic constraints and morphological alternation in Estonian, which are templatic in spirit if not in specific detail. Further examples derive from uses of reduplication in core grammar; an account of Czech morphology evokes variable shape templates. Finally, the author reports an experiment with English speakers showing an effect of output templates in innovative word formation.