Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition / Edition 1

by Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, Jeroen van de Weijer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198238447
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	11/28/2000
Series:	Oxford Linguistics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Leiden University

Table of Contents

Introduction
Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, Paul Boersma, Joost Dekkers, and Jeroen van de Weijer
Part Ia: Phonology - Prosodic Representations
Cycles, Non-Derived-Environment Blocking and Correspondence, Luigi Burzio
Gradient Well-Formedness in Optimality Theory, Bruce Hayes
Stem Stress and Peak Correspondence in Dutch, René Kager
Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription, John McCarthy
Part Ib: Phonology - Segmental Phonology
Loan Phonology: Perception, Salience, the Lexicon, and OT, Haike Jacobs and Carlos Gussenhoven
Derivational Residue: Hidden Rules in OT, Darlene LaCharité and Carole Paradis
Dependency Theory Meets OT: A Proposal for a New Approach to Segmental Structure, Norval Smith
Part II: Syntax
Absolute Ungrammaticality, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman
Toward an Optimal Account of Second Position Phenomena, Stephen R. Anderson
Optimal Syntax, Joan Bresnan
Minimalism and OT: Derivations and Filters, Hans Broekhuis and Joost Dekkers
Morphological and Prosodic Alignment of Bulgarian Clitics, Géraldine Legendre
Part III: The Acquisition of Syntax and Phonology
Learning a Grammar in Functional Phonology, Paul Boersma
The Universal Constraint Set: Convention not Fact, Mark Ellison
Learning Phonology: Genetic Algorithms and Yoruba Tongue Root Harmony, Douglas Pulleyblank and William Turkel
Optimality and Strict Domination in Language Learning, Bruce Tesar