Optimality theory
by Kager, René
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
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- Full title :Optimality theory / René Kager.
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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xiii, 452 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0511039778, 9780511039775, 0511053843, 9780511053849, 9780511812408, 051181240X
- oclc:on1090456073
- LC Classification:P158.42
- Dewey Decimal:410/.1
Table of Contents
1. Conflicts in grammars -- 2. The typology of structural changes -- 3. Syllable structure and economy -- 4. Metrical structure and parallelism -- 5. Correspondence in reduplication -- 6. Output-to-output correspondence.
7. Learning OT grammars -- 8. Extensions to syntax -- 9. Residual issues.
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