FOOT EXTRAMETRICALITY AND TEMPLATE MAPPING IN CUPENO

This paper reanalyses the Cupeno habilitative construction (Hill, 1970 ; McCarthy, 1984; McCarthy and Prince, 1986, 1990) as association to a disyllabic template under initial foot and final consonant extrametri cality. An advantage of the reanalysis is that it does not require a t risyllabic template proposed as part of earlier analyses (McCarthy, 19 84; McCarthy and Prince, 1986, 1990), thereby making possible a more c onstrained inventory of template types. Other theoretical contribution s of the paper are that it exemplifies two as yet uninstantiated predi ctions of prosodic circumscription theory: (i) foot extrametricality r esulting from a morphological (as opposed to a metrical) operation and (ii) template mapping as an operation on the residue of negative pros odic circumscription. An empirical contribution of the paper is a sync hronic metrical analysis of Cupeno accented and unaccented forms.