Optimality Theory in Phonology

English

ISBN: 0470755520

EAN: 9780470755525

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release Date: 06/17/2008

Synopsis: 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.

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Optimality Theory in Phonology

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 624