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Remarks on phonological opacity in Optimality Theory
Studies in Afroasiatic Grammar. Papers from the Second Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Sophia Antipolis, 1994 (1996)
  • John J McCarthy
Abstract

In these remarks, I have examined the problem of phonological opacity for theories without serial ordering of rules, focusing on Optimality Theory. I have argued in favor of extending a correspondence-based approach to faithfulness to the statement of phonological markedness constraints. The core of the proposal is separate specification of the levels at which featural, adjacency, and linear order conditions must be met. I have compared this approach to two others, noting many similarities and a few differences: the structural approach adopted in Prince and Smolensky (1993) and most other OT work, and the Two-Level or Cognitive Phonology of Koskenniemi (1983) and Lakoff (1993).

Publication Date
1996
Editor
Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm, and Ur Shlonsky
Publisher
Holland Academic Graphics
Citation Information
John J McCarthy. "Remarks on phonological opacity in Optimality Theory" The HagueStudies in Afroasiatic Grammar. Papers from the Second Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Sophia Antipolis, 1994 (1996)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_j_mccarthy/74/