The relation between stem and reduplicant - "I-R Faithfulness" [...] appears in a subordinate position in every ranking, dominated by I-B Faithfulness, significantly limiting its effects. In many rankings, its presence will be completely or almost completely hidden; it therefore becomes convenient to study a simplified model, a proper sub-theory, in which I-R Faithfulness is not considered. Let us call this the "Basic Model", which directly follows [McCarthy, John J. and Prince, Alan S., 1993a, Prosodic Morphology I: constraint interaction and satisfaction, ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, RuCCS-TR-3].
- McCarthy & Prince (2004), a pag.381