Phonological argumentation : essays on evidence and motivation /

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Imprint:	London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.
Description:	x, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in optimality theory Advances in optimality theory.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology. Optimality theory (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7998384

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Other authors / contributors:	Parker, Stephen G. (Stephen George), 1958-
ISBN:	9781845532208 (hbk.) 1845532201 (hbk.) 9781845532215 (pbk.) 184553221X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"This volume presents a series of original papers focusing on phonological argumentation, set within the framework of Optimality Theory. It contains two major sections: chapters about the evidence for and methodology used in discovering the bases of phonological theory, i.e., how constraints are formed and what sort of evidence is relevant in positing them; and case studies that focus on particular theoretical issues within Optimality Theory, usually through selected phenomena in one or more languages, arguing in favor of or against specific formal analyses."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

PART 1. PHONOLOGICAL ARGUMENTATION AND THE BASES OF OPTIMALITY THEORY: Grammar is both categorical and gradient / Andries W. Coetzee
Phonological evidence / Paul de Lacy
Underphonologization and modularity bias / Elliott Moreton
Contrast, comparison sets, and the perceptual space / Mìre N ̕Chiosìn and Jaye Padgett
Morpheme-specific phonology: constraint indexation and inconsistency resolution / Joe Pater
Source similarity in loanword adaptation: correspondence theory and the posited source-language representation / Jennifer Smith
PART 2. CASE STUDIES IN PHONOLOGICAL ARGUMENTATION: Exploring recursivity, stringency and gradience in the Pama-Nyungan stress continuum / John Alderete
Acoustics of epenthetic vowels in Lebanese Arabic / Maria Gouskova and Nancy Hall
The onset of the prosodic word / Junko Ito and Armin Mester
Infixation as morpheme absorption / Ania Lubowicz
Vowel length in Arabic verb stems / Sam Rosenthall.

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