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Title Phonological argumentation:
essays on evidence and motivation.
Author(s) Parker, Steve, ed.
Local Call Num. P 217 .P477 2009
ISBN 978-1-84553-221-5
1-84553-2211-0
Status This item is currently IN the library.
Series Advances in optimality theory.
Pages x, 377 p.
Publishing Info Oakville, CT Equinox. 2009
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Subjects Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
 
Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-347) and indexes.
ill.; 24 cm.

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.

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 / Mi?re N ?Chiosi?n 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.