Derivations And Constraints In Phonology
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Derivations and Constraints in Phonology
Author | : Iggy Roca |
Publsiher | : Barron's Educational Series |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198236905 |
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For the first time in over thirty years a revolution is happening in phonology, with the advent of constraint-based approaches which directly oppose the rule-and-derivation tradition of mainstream Generative Phonology. The success of Optimality Theory and the rapidity of its spread since its official launch in 1993 is remarkable even by the general standards of most post-1950s linguistics. Many phonologists appear to have been caught up in the whirlwind, as witnessed in the substance of many current working papers and conferences the world over, and the recent contents of well-established journals. Two questions naturally arise: What is Optimality Theory about? In what way is Optimality Theory superior to traditional theory, if indeed it is? In this book, leading specialists and active researchers address these issues directly, and focus deliberately on the evaluation of the two competing approaches rather than on simple displays of their applicability to limited bodies of data.
Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory
Author | : Linda Lombardi |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521790573 |
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This volume, first published in 2001, brings together work by scholars researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.
Rules Constraints and Phonological Phenomena
Author | : Bert Vaux,Andrew Nevins |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191527661 |
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This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates in phonological and linguistic theory: should the explanation of phonological variety be constraint or rule-based and, in the light of the resolution of this question, how in the mind does phonology interface with other components of the grammar. The book includes contributions from leading proponents of both sides of the argument and an extensive introduction setting out the history, nature, and more general linguistic implications of current phonological theory.
Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax Phonology and Morphology
Author | : Anna Bloch-Rozmej,Anna Bondaruk |
Publsiher | : Sounds ¿ Meaning ¿ Communication |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : 3631673795 |
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The papers collected in this volume explore and discuss the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The analyzed phenomena come from such languages as English, Old English, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Icelandic.
The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory
Author | : Ben Hermans,Marc van Oostendorp |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2000-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027294920 |
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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.
Frontiers of Phonology
Author | : Jacques Durand,Francis Katamba |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317896845 |
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Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of phonological features; the role and structure of the skeletal tier and syllable structure; and the competing claims of derivational and declarative approaches to phonology. The book provides a forum for lively discussion of important theoretical topics from various standpoints including metrical and autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology and declarative phonology. The contributors, who are protagonists of these different standpoints, compare notes and show the merits of their different approaches. The essays discussing derivational issues offer an excellent introduction to the area of constraints based phonology, and by covering the phonology of many languages the book provides an understanding of how human languages in general use sound.
The Last Phonological Rule
Author | : John A. Goldsmith |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1993-06-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226301559 |
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Over the past three decades, phonological theory has advanced in many areas, but it has changed little in its foundational assumptions about how computational processes can serve as a basis for the theory. This volume suggests that it may be worthwhile to reconsider some of those assumptions. Is there an order to the rules in a phonological derivation? What kinds of links other than derivations are possible between the level of mental representation and the level of speech sounds? Since phonological representations are so much more sophisticated today than they were a few decads ago, do we need any phonological rules at all? In this provocative book, leading linguists and computer scientists consider the challenges that computational innovations pose to current rule-based phonological theories and speculate about the advantages of phonological models based on artificial neural networks and other computer designs. The authors offer new conceptions of phonological theory for the 1990s, the most radical of which proposes that phonological processes cannot be characterized by rules at all, but arise from the dynamics of a system of phonological representations in a high-dimensional vector space of the sort that a neural network embodies. This new view of phonology is becoming increasingly attractive to linguists and others in the cognitive sciences because it answers some difficult questions about learning while drawing on recent results in philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. The contributors are John A. Goldsmith, Larry M. Hyman, George Lakoff, K. P. Mohanan, David S. Touretzky, and Deirdre W. Wheeler.
Optimality Theory in Phonology
Author | : John J. McCarthy |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780470755525 |
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Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.