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 …

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 …

This article proposes a theory of prosodic domain circumscription, by means of which rules
sensitive to morphological domain may be restricted to a prosodically characterized (sub-) …

This paper argues for a theory in which epenthesis results from the interrelated requirements
of prosody and not from obligatory skeletal insertion rules. Prosodic Licensing requires the …

First published in 1988. The goal of this study is to explore the workings of a syllable theory
which is an integral part of Prosodic Phonology. It will be shown that theory-internal …

Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of
phonological opacity. Opacity arises when the conditions for or results of an active …

A central idea in rule-based phonology is the serial derivation (Chomsky & Halle 1968). In a
serial derivation, an underlying form passes through a number of intermediate …

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As a paradigm case of syllable weight controlling the place of prosodic prominence within
the phonological word, the (ante) penultimate stress pattern of Latin and other languages …

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 …