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Optimality Theory

Optimality Theory

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521580196
ISBN13: 9780521580199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 28 1999
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.

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