Optimality Theory
Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 October 2000
- ISBN 9780198238447
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages648 pages
- Size 233x157x33 mm
- Weight 913 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
Optimality Theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. With contributors that include the leading researchers in the field, this book presents the first fruits of such research as applied to syntax and to language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack on OT by rule-based grammarians. Essential reading for linguists at graduate level and above.
MoreLong description:
The introduction of Optimality Theory (OT) by Prince and Smolenski in 1995 is frequently seen as the most important development in generative grammar of the 1990s. It has profoundly changed the understanding of sound systems; it has given a new impetus to the study of language acqusition; and its potential for the discovery and explanation of the universal properties of language is increasingly recognized. OT subsitutes constraints for rules in universal grammar and linguistic performance. Constraints are ranked so that a a lower-ranked constraint may be violated in order to satisfy a higher. The assumption that constraints are vioable can be considered as the formal correlate of linguistic tendencies, whereas their ranking expresses the degree to which individual languages exhibit these tendencies.
OT may thus be used to describe the characteristics of any language, but it is as yet too general to provide a substantive theory of grammar. In this book a range of scholars consider the specific properties that an OT grammar should have. After an extensive introduction, the volume is divided into four parts. Parts One and Two are concerned respectively with prosodic representations and segmental phonology. Parts Three and Four then consider the application of OT to syntax and syntatic theory and to language acquistion and learnability.
This wide-ranging collection of new work by leading scholars from the USA and Europe will interest linguists and postgraduate students in all the main fields of discipline. Its insights and the research it reports will also be valuable to those whose theoretical position is apparently at odds with the principles of OT.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition
Part Ia: Phonology - Prosodic Representations
Cycles, Non-Derived-Environment Blocking and Correspondence
Gradient Well-Formedness in Optimality Theory
Stem Stress and Peak Correspondence in Dutch
Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription
Part Ib: Phonology - Segmental Phonology
Loan Phonology: Perception, Salience, the Lexicon, and OT
Derivational Residue: Hidden Rules in OT
Dependency Theory Meets OT: A Proposal for a New Approach to Segmental Structure
Part II: Syntax
Absolute Ungrammaticality
Toward an Optimal Account of Second Position Phenomena
Optimal Syntax
Minimalism and OT: Derivations and Filters
Morphological and Prosodic Alignment of Bulgarian Clitics
Part III: The Acquisition of Syntax and Phonology
Learning a Grammar in Functional Phonology
The Universal Constraint Set: Convention not Fact
Learning Phonology: Genetic Algorithms and Yoruba Tongue Root Harmony
Optimality and Strict Domination in Language Learning
