Optimality Theory first gained wide exposure from a course taught by Prince and Smolensky
at the 1991 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. The earliest and still the …

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 …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

On the notion 'feature bundle'The study of the phonological aspect of human speech has
advanced greatly over the past decades as a result of one of the fundamental discoveries of …

We have argued that dynamically defined articulatory gestures are the appropriate units to
serve as the atoms of phonological representation. Gestures are a natural unit, not only …

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

Voice onset time (VOT) is known to vary with place of articulation. For any given place of
articulation there are differences from one language to another. Using data from multiple …

When a parameter specifying the configuration or state of an articulatory structure is
manipulated through a range of values, some acoustic parameter describing the resulting …

Superior to any other book on the subject that I have seen. I can see it being used as a class
text or reference for current theory in sign language phonology. This book is intended in part …