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In some languages, notably Kikuyu, the association of tones and syllables is completely predictable. In...
In standard Optimality Theory, faithfulness constraints are defined in terms of an input-output correspondence relation,...
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This paper is a shorter (and probably better) version of "Harmony in...
Classical Arabic has complex phonological alternations affecting words in utterance-final position, traditionally...
Agreement by correspondence (ABC) is a theory of long-distance assimilation processes proposed in recent work...
The weight of a syllable-sized reduplicant is never dependent on the syllabification of the base...
This document consists of about 30 pages of text to supplement Doing Optimality Theory (Blackwell,...
Supresedes "The p-map in Harmonic Serialism"
In Optimality Theory, phonological patterns are accounted for with output constraints ranked in a hierarchy....
What OT constraint favors autosegmental spreading? Existing proposals for the pro-spreading markedness constraint make implausible...
According to the P-Map, a phonological mapping is less faithful to the extent that there...
Optimality Theory revolutionized the field of phonology and had a huge impact on linguistics in...
When a medial consonant cluster is simplified by deletion or place assimilation, the first consonant...
Many languages respect the generalization that some or all unstressed vowels are deleted. This generalization...
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The phonology of [anterior] in Chumash supports recent proposals by Hansson (2001), Rose & Walker...
In the theory of generative phonology, the phonological grammar of a language is regarded as...
Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of phonological opacity. Opacity...
In this chapter, we have argued for a revision of correspondence theory in which strings...
There is a well-established asymmetry in the behavior of medial consonant clusters: the first consonant...
Optimality Theory is a general model of how grammars are structured. This article surveys the...
Prince & Smolensky (1993) describe a version of OT, one in which maximal harmony is...
Transderivational Correspondence and Uniform Exponence are two recent theories of surface resemblances among morphologically related...
As language learners begin to analyze morphologically complex words, they face the problem of projecting...
This paper has argued that richness of the base, when combined with OT’s inherent commitment...
Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new...
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The markedness constraints of classic Optimality Theory assign violation-marks to output candidates without reference to...
In Optimality Theory, constraints come in two types, which are distinguished by their mode of...
The Duke-of-York gambit (Pullum 1976) involves derivations of the form A->B->A, where underlying /A/ passes...
These seven commentaries treat a wide range of topics in interesting and insightful ways. It...
This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises...
In his article 'Consonant cluster neutralisation and targeted constraints', Wilson (2001) proposes a far-reaching revision...
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Optimality Theory; 3. The Stratal Organization of Axininca Campa...
Morphological processes are often sensitive to the prosodic structure of their inputs. Phenomena like these...
The most familiar architecture for Optimality Theory is a fully parallel one, meaning that "all...
The "phase" alternation in Rotuman is remarkable (and has attracted a good deal of previous...
This article is largely based on the more extensive study McCarthy & Prince (1995), but...
Fixed segmentism is the phenomenon whereby a reduplicative morpheme contains segments that are invariant rather...
This paper explores the nature of phonological opacity (in the sense of Kiparsky 1971, 1973)...
In this paper, we present a complete account of word stress in Indonesian and the...
The morpheme structure constraints of classic generative phonology impose language-particular restrictions on underlying representations. It...
Similar phonological processes can be governed by different constraints. Davis (1995) claims that the effect...
This work has circulated in manuscript form since October, 1986. Its basic contents were first...
In these remarks, I have examined the problem of phonological opacity for theories without serial...
1. Introduction; 2. Correspondence Theory; 3. Correspondence Theory and Overapplication; 4. Factorial...
An overview of results in the theory of prosodic morphology.
This paper identifies and illustrates a key consequence of Optimality Theory called 'emergence of the...
The guttural segments of the Semitic languages form a natural class.
Structural relations between grammatical categories (here, morphological and phonological) are governed by a single family...
A pre-OT analysis of the verbal templates in Akkadian and Arabic.
An earlier analysis of r/zero alternations in the Boston dialect.
This article proposes a theory of Prosodic Domain Circumscription, by means of which rules sensitive...
An analysis of Arabic verb and noun templates.
In this article I have argued that morphological distinctions play no direct role in planar...
A fundamental problem in phonological theory is the fact that processes often operate on consistent...
A problem in the historical phonology of the Ethiopian Semitic language Chaha is examined from...
Few putative properties of phonological organization have had as erratic a history as the Obligatory...
The thesis of this paper is that morphological templates have access to a richer variety...
An autosegmental analysis of a secret language used by prostitutes in Addis Ababa.
Arabic broken plurals as infixation.
A broad survey and typology of infixing reduplication.
In the Gurage (Ethiopian Semitic) language Chaha, erstwhile phonological processes of palatalization and labialization have...
Sound symbolism and other phenomena where individual distinctive features act as morphemes.
The last five or six years have seen a substantial change in the nature of...
An analysis of English Expletive Infixation (as in fan-fuckin-tastic) in terms of a metrical theory...
In recent work (McCarthy 1979, 1981; Halle and Vergnaud 1980; Harris 1980; Marantz, to appear;...
A CV skeleton analysis of Arabic root-and-pattern morphology.
Tiberian Hebrew has an unusual, deeply opaque process of word-initial gemination.
Psalm 137 has a syllable-counting meter. As in French, syllables after the line-final stress are...
Geminate integrity in Biblical Hebrew.
The Evaluation Metric of SPE, when taken seriously, produces some good results. Evidence comes from...
Three models of metrical stress assignment in the Arabic dialect of Damascus (Halle and Vergnaud...
This study deals with the formal character of phonological representations and rules. Two basic lines...
Of all the diverse properties of segmental strings, syllable structure is the one that stress...
The special status of coronals in consonant clusters.
