The term “The Emergence of the Unmarked” (TETU), originally coined by McCarthy and Prince (1994), refers to situations where some marked structure is generally allowed in a language, but banned in particular contexts; the complementary unmarked structure thus “emerges.” In Nuu‐chah‐nulth (Wakashan, referred to by McCarthy and Prince by its former name, Nootka), for example, syllables can generally have codas; reduplicants, however, are exceptional in that codas are banned. This results in words like [tʃi‐tʃm.s'iːħ] ‘hunting bear’ and [waːwaːs.tʃiɬ] ‘naming where’, in which unmarked (codaless) syllables emerge in reduplicants despite the presence of marked codas in bases.