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 …

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

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

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When a medial consonant cluster is simplified by deletion or place assimilation, the first
consonant is affected, but never the second one:/patka/becomes [paka] and …

This work proposes a series of ternary scales which make certain phonological distinctions
traditionally made with binary or privative features. The dissertation focuses on the Inherent …

Serial derivations have been a central idea in the theory of generative phonology throughout
its history, but scant attention has been paid to a key question: is any serial derivation …