Optimality Theory

Book 19 of 72: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Rene Kager

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ISBN 10: 0521589800 ISBN 13: 9780521589802

Published by Cambridge University Press June 1999, 1999

Language: English

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Optimality Theory

Publisher

Cambridge University Press June 1999

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521589800

ISBN 13

9780521589802

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Trade Paperback

Condition

Good

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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.

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Rene Kager is Associate Professor of Language Development at Utrecht University. His books include A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in Dutch (1989), The Prosody-Morphology Interface (with H. van der Hulst and W. Zonneveld, Cambridge 1999) and Optimality Theory (Cambridge, 1999).

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