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Optimality Theory in Phonology
McCarthy
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Description for Optimality Theory in Phonology
Hardcover. This reader is organized into sections dealing with different topics: fundamental results about the theory per se; phonology; syntax; learnability and acquisition; and variation and change. It draws on works from the Optimality Archive, works from journals and other publications. Num Pages: 624 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1242.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631226888
SKU
V9780631226888
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99-15
About McCarthy
John J. McCarthy is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His widely cited but unpublished manuscript “Prosodic Morphology I: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction” (with Alan Prince, 1993) has been an important factor in the dissemination of Optimality Theory.He is also the author of Formal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology (1985) and A Thematic Guide to Optimality ... Read more
Reviews for Optimality Theory in Phonology
"This is the book we have all been waiting for. By 'we' I mean everybody who is not a cutting-edge researcher in OT phonology but who hopes to become one, or who needs to know about OT in order to teach phonology in an up-to-date fashion, or who is interested in what has been perhaps the most vigorous and fruitful ... Read more