More than 50 years after the appearance of the motor theory of speech perception, it is
timely to evaluate its three main claims that (1) speech processing is special,(2) perceiving …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS Edited by
Laurence Horn Yale University A ROUTLEDGE SERIES Page 3 OUTSTANDING …

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

A formal approach to the typology of differential object marking (DOM) is developed within
the framework of Optimality Theory. The functional/typological literature has established that …

Abstract The Gradual Learning Algorithm (Boersma 1997) is a constraint-ranking algorithm
for learning optimality-theoretic grammars. The purpose of this article is to assess the …

The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of
phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

In this review, I assess a variety of constraint-based formal frameworks that can treat variable
phenomena, such as well-formedness intuitions, outputs in free variation, and lexical …

Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for
undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises …