Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory

Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory

Author: Linda Lombardi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-27

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521790574

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This volume, first published in 2001, brings together work by scholars researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.


Optimality Theory in Phonology

Optimality Theory in Phonology

Author: John J. McCarthy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0470755520

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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, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.


Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology

Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology

Author: Fernando Martínez-Gil

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9027292620

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This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework of optimality theory. The book is structured around six major areas of phonological research: phonetics–phonology interface, segmental phonology, syllable structure and stress, morphophonology, language variation and change, and language acquisition, including general as well as more specialized articles. The reader is guided through the volume with the help of the introduction and a detailed index. The book will serve as core reading for advanced graduate-level phonology courses and seminars in Spanish linguistics, and in general linguistics phonology courses. It will also constitute an essential reference for researchers in phonology, phonological theory, and Spanish, and related areas, such as language acquisition, bilingualism, education, and speech and hearing science.


Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology

Markedness and Economy in a Derivational Model of Phonology

Author: Andrea Calabrese

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 311019760X

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This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model. In developing this theory, the book offers new solutions to many long-standing problems involving syllabic and segmental phonology with analyses of natural language data, both well-known and relatively unknown. The book also includes a new treatment of Palatalization and Affrication processes, a novel theory of feature visibility as an alternative to feature underspecification and an extensive critique of Optimality Theory.


The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

Author: Eric Raimy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1118555341

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The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology unravels exactly what the segment is and on what levels it exists, approaching the study of the segment with theoretical, empirical, and methodological heterogeneity as its guiding principle. A deliberately eclectic approach to the study of the segment that investigates exactly what the segment is and on what level it exists Includes new research data from a diverse range of fields such as experimental psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and mathematical theories of communication Represents the major theoretical models of phonology, including Articulatory Phonology, Optimality Theory, Laboratory Phonology and Generative Phonology Examines both well-studied languages like English, Chinese, and Japanese and under-studied languages such as Southern Sierra Miwok, Päri, and American Sign Language


Parsing below the Segment in a Constraint-Based Framework

Parsing below the Segment in a Constraint-Based Framework

Author: Cheryl Zoll

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications

Published: 1998-06-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781575861302

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This book proposes a new way of understanding the behavior of consonants and vowels in a broad cross-section of the world's languages. A new model of subsegmental phonology within optimality theory that differs from standard autosegmental phonology both in its limited use of representational distinctions and in the form of the grammar to which the representations submit is introduced. The research focuses particularly on floating features and ghost segments, and demonstrates that the current understanding of segmental representation fails to characterize the full range of subsegmental phenomena found cross-linguistically. Zoll proposes instead an analysis in which the grammar derives the variety of surface phenomena from a single underlying representation. This work both enlarges the empirical foundation on which an adequate theory of segment structure must be based, and in developing such an account sheds new light on classic problems of subsegmental parsing.


Doing Optimality Theory

Doing Optimality Theory

Author: John J. McCarthy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1444358057

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Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are markedly different from other linguistic theories, this book presents the analytic techniques and new ways of thinking and theorizing that are required. Explains how to do analysis and research using Optimality Theory (OT) - a branch of phonology that has revolutionized the field since its conception in 1993 Offers practical, in-depth advice for students and researchers in the field, presented in an engaging way Features numerous examples, questions, and exercises throughout, all helping to illustrate the theory and summarize the core concepts of OT Written by John J. McCarthy, one of the theory’s leading proponents and an instrumental figure in the dissemination and use of OT today An ideal guide through the intricacies of linguistic analysis and research for beginning researchers, and, by example, one which will lead the way to future developments in the field.


Optimality Theory

Optimality Theory

Author: Alan Prince

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0470759399

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This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format. Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory. Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.


Optimality Theory

Optimality Theory

Author: Joost Dekkers (linguiste)

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780198238447

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Optimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians.