Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory
Title | Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Crosswhite |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780415937597 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory
Title | Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Margaret Crosswhite |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 894 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Optimality theory (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory
Title | The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Hermans |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2000-02-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294925 |
Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical levels, the cycle, and intrinsic and extrinsic rule ordering, among other things. OT in its standard form, on the other hand, represents a minimalist theory of derivations, recognizing only a direct mapping from input to output. This volume addresses questions from many different points of view by a number of outstanding scholars: Is this minimal theory sufficiently well-equipped to deal with the empirical complications of natural language or do we need a larger 'derivational residue' in our theory? What are the relevant facts and how can we deal with them? Are there any reasons to think that an OT-based approach to derivations may even be more successful than its rule-based competitors? The book also features an introduction into the general issues involved and an extensive bibliography.
Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems
Title | Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Viola Giulia Miglio |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135456801 |
Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.
Optimality Theory and Phonetics-phonology Interface
Title | Optimality Theory and Phonetics-phonology Interface PDF eBook |
Author | Štefan Beňuš |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction
Title | Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Rosenthall |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2013-11-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135657580 |
First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and Smolensky's (1993) Optimality Theory. The alternation stems from simultaneously comparing moraic and nonmoraic parses of high vowels for constraint satisfaction
Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems
Title | Markedness and Faithfulness in Vowel Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Viola Miglio |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780415967808 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.