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 …

Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986 et seq.) is a theory of how morphological
and phonological determinants of linguistic form interact with one another in a grammatical …

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 Optimality Theory, constraints come in two types, which are distinguished by their mode of
evaluation. Categorical constraints are either satisfied or not; a categorical constraint …

I will argue that loanword phonology in Cantonese does not exist as a separate component
of the grammar and that the differences between English language source forms and their …

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Non-concatenative morphological phenomena appear on the face of it to require a powerful
morphological component, capable of more than straightforward addition of affixes …

This book is about the phonological phenomenon known as nasal harmony, where the
property of nasalization spreads in a predictable way across certain sequences of adjacent …

Underlying free (floating) features occur crosslinguistically. These features sometime
function as morphemes. Such features, like segmental morphemes, often refer to specific …

This paper presents a theory of morphophonology based on a development in the theory of
faithfulness in Optimality Theory. A new constraint type, anti-faithfulness, is proposed that …