Optimality Theory in Phonology

A Reader
This reader is organized into sections dealing with different topics: fundamental results about the theory per se; phonology; syntax; learnability and acquisition; and variation and change. It draws on works from the Optimality Archive, works from journals and other publications.

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.

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