Optimality Theory

Name: Optimality Theory
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ISBN: 9780521589802

ISBN-10: 0521589800

ISBN-13: 9780521589802

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rene Kager, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler

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The central idea of Optimality Theory is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. For linguists with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology, the book includes exercises.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface



Conflicts in grammars



The typology of structural changes



Syllable structure and economy



Metrical structure and parallelism



Correspondence in reduplication



Output-to-output correspondence



Learning OT grammars



Extensions to syntax



Residual issues


References


Index of languages


Index of subjects


Index of constraints