Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

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 …

Abstract Harmonic Grammar (HG) and Optimality Theory (OT) are closely related formal
frameworks for the study of language. In both, the structure of a given language is …

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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 dissertation identifies a strong computational property of phonological and
morphological processes with local triggers. It is shown that the input-output mapping that …

This dissertation proposes a novel theory of the phonology-morphology interface called
Optimal Interleaving (OI). OI is based on Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) …

This book presents the first cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon of infixation, typically
associated in English with words like" im-bloody-possible", and found in all the world's major …

First Published in 2002. Production, Perception and Phontactic Patterns presents the first
experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents in …

It has proven practical over a long history of research on language sound systems to
rationalize phonological units and processes in terms of speech articulation. The Sanskrit …