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Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders
Author: Daniel A. Dinnsen
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the phonologies of children with functional (non-organic) speech disorders, this volume reports the latest findings in optimality theory, phonological acquisition and disorders. The book is based on typological, cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental evidence from over 200 children. It stands out because of the unique test case that the population offers to optimality theory, particularly with respect to puzzles of opacity, lawful orders of acquisition, and language learnability. Beyond its theoretical significance, this research holds clinical relevance for the assessment and treatment of disordered populations, most notably the systematic prediction of learning outcomes. The volume bridges the gap between theory and application by showing how each informs the other. It is intended for linguists, psychologists, speech pathologists, second-language instructors and those interested in the latest developments in phonological theory and its applied extensions.
Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory
Author: Linda Lombardi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-27
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521790574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0199226512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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, andmore general linguistic implications of current phonological theory.
Doing Optimality Theory
Author: John J. McCarthy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1444358057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are markedly different from other linguistic theories, this book presents the analytic techniques and new ways of thinking and theorizing that are required. Explains how to do analysis and research using Optimality Theory (OT) - a branch of phonology that has revolutionized the field since its conception in 1993 Offers practical, in-depth advice for students and researchers in the field, presented in an engaging way Features numerous examples, questions, and exercises throughout, all helping to illustrate the theory and summarize the core concepts of OT Written by John J. McCarthy, one of the theory’s leading proponents and an instrumental figure in the dissemination and use of OT today An ideal guide through the intricacies of linguistic analysis and research for beginning researchers, and, by example, one which will lead the way to future developments in the field.
Paradigms in Phonological Theory
Author: Laura J. Downing
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780199267712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents new insights on the phonology-morphology interface. It discusses a wide range of central theoretical issues, including the role of paradigms in synchronic grammars, and does so in the context of a wide variety of languages including several non-Indo-European languages. Paradigm uniformity has a long tradition in pre-generative linguistics but until recently played a minor role in theoretical phonology. Optimality Theory has drawn renewed attention to paradigmatic effects, formalized by constraints comparing the surface pronunciation of morphologically related words. The ten chapters in this volume illustrate how a wide range of exceptions to regular phonological processes can be explained in this fashion. The chapters address such important theoretical questions as: do paradigms have a morphological base? If so, how is it defined? Why do paradigmatic effects hold for only certain subsets of words? In which areas of the grammar are paradigmatic effects likely to be found? The authors discuss new data from the synchronic grammars of a wide variety of unrelated languages, including: Modern Hebrew, Chimwiini and Jita (Bantu), Halkomelem (Salish), Hungarian, and Arabic.
Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
Author: Rachel Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1135718970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.
A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
Author: John J. McCarthy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521796446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.
The Syllable in Optimality Theory
Author: Caroline Féry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-01-27
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1139437380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics: the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse frameworks of theoretical phonology and morphology all make reference to this fundamental unit of prosodic structure. No less central to the field is Optimality Theory, an approach developed within (morpho-)phonology in the early 1990s. This 2003 book combines two themes of central importance to linguists and their mutual relevance in recent research. It provides an overview of the role of the syllable in OT and ways in which problems that relate to the analysis of syllable structure can be solved in OT. The contributions to the book not only show that the syllable sheds light on certain properties of OT itself, they also demonstrate that OT is capable of describing and adequately analyzing many issues that are problematic in other theories. The analyses are based on a wealth of languages.
Survival of the Fittest
Author: Karolina Broś
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-06-18
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1443879258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Survival of the Fittest provides an in-depth analysis of weakening processes attested in Spanish and English within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). The book examines fricative lenition as an instance of sound change in progress, contributing to the study of phonological change and the notion of strength in phonology. It also provides motivation for the introduction of a derivational stage in OT analysis. A critical discussion of various OT sub-theories presented by the author leads to interesting conclusions concerning the way in which lenition and opacity processes should be addressed in OT. Furthermore, under the assumption that language change should be conceived in evolutionary terms, the book concludes that sounds undergo continuous modification which is not at all accidental. The direction of change tends to be a constant on the temporal axis, and the leniting character of a large portion of phonological processes observed in the world’s languages points to the universal tendency for sounds to gradually fade and give way to other, stronger segments, which may be interpreted as an instantiation of ‘'natural selection’ within language. In taking a broader perspective on language, the book considers phonological processes to be successors of phonetic innovations, and predecessors of morphological and lexical shifts. Thus, in order to encompass more than just a formal discussion of certain phonological phenomena, this book pursues the more profound question of why and how certain regularities within irregularities are attested across languages. The empirical data from Chilean Spanish and English serve as instantiations of these universal patterns.
