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Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, starting with a lengthy excerpt from the original source, Prince and Smolensky's never-before-published report Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generati...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: McCarthy, John J., 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors8217; Addresses
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I The Basics
  • 1 Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
  • 2 Generalized Alignment: Introduction and Theory
  • 3 Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology
  • Part II Formal Analysis
  • 4 Computing Optimal Forms in Optimality Theory: Basic Syllabification
  • 5 Learnability in Optimality Theory
  • 6 Non-computable Functions in Optimality Theory
  • Part III Prosody
  • 7 Generalized Alignment: Prosody
  • 8 Ternary Rhythm and the *Lapse Constraint
  • 9 Quality-Sensitive Stress
  • 10 Unbounded Stress and Factorial Typology
  • 11 Head Dependence in Stress8211;Epenthesis Interaction
  • 12 Feet and Tonal Reduction at the Word and Phrase Level in Chinese
  • 13 OCP Effects in Optimality Theory
  • Part IV Segmental Phonology
  • 14 Austronesian Nasal Substitution and Other NC Effects
  • 15 Phonetically Driven Phonology: The Role of Optimality Theory and Inductive Grounding
  • 16 Positional Faithfulness
  • 17 Positional Faithfulness and Voicing Assimilation in Optimality Theory
  • 18 Positional Asymmetries and Licensing
  • 19 Partial Class Behavior and Nasal Place Assimilation
  • 20 Dissimilation as Local Conjunction
  • 21 Synchronic Chain Shifts in Optimality Theory
  • Part V Interfaces
  • 22 Transderivational Identity: Phonological Relations Between Words
  • 23 Backness Switch in Russian
  • 24 Generalized Alignment: The Prosody8211;Morphology Interface
  • 25 The Prosodic Structure of Function Words
  • 26 The Emergence of the Unmarked
  • 27 Maximal Words and the Maori Passive
  • 28 External Allomorphy as Emergence of the Unmarked
  • 29 Derived Environment Effects in Optimality Theory
  • 30 Licensing and Underspecification in Optimality Theory
  • 31 The Implications of Lexical Exceptions for the Nature of Grammar
  • 32 The Phonological Lexicon
  • 33 Variation and Change in Optimality Theory
  • References
  • Index of Languages and Language Families
  • Index of Constraints
  • Index of Topics.