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Available for the first time in book form, Prince and Smolensky's "Optimality Theory" is the seminal work in the field. This influential work defines grammatical well-formedness as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. It presents the theory both through ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prince, Alan
Other Authors: Smolensky, Paul, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Subjects:
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Constraints (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries
  • Optimality in grammar : core syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber
  • Generalization-forms in domination hierarchies I : do something only when : triggering, or the theory of economy
  • Generalization-forms in domination hierarchies II : do something except when : blocking, or the theory of profuseness
  • The construction of grammar in optimality theory
  • Syllable structure typology : the CV theory
  • Constraint interaction in Lardil phonology
  • Universal syllable theory : ordinal construction of C/V and onset/coda licensing asymmetry
  • Inventory theory and the lexicon
  • Foundational issues and theory-comparisons.