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Optimality theory /

This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a kn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kager, René
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Conflicts in grammars
  • 2. The typology of structural changes
  • 3. Syllable structure and economy
  • 4. Metrical structure and parallelism
  • 5. Correspondence in reduplication
  • 6. Output-to-output correspondence.
  • 7. Learning OT grammars
  • 8. Extensions to syntax
  • 9. Residual issues.