Linda Lombardi (ed.)

Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory

Constraints and Representations
Herausgeber: Lombardi, Linda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Optimality theory has rapidly become the dominant framework in formal phonological theory. OT fundamentally revises the basic notions of generative grammar, replacing rules and derivations with a system of interacting constraints. Early work in OT tended to concentrate mainly on prosodic phonology and the phonology-morphology interface, and it was not initially clear how the theory could attack the rich range of phenomena now found in segmental alterations. However, there is now a body of work that concentrates on working out the details of featural phonology with OT, and this work shows that the theory allows superior explanations of the typological possibilities and the underlying motivations for these phenomena. This volume brings together current work by some of the influential researchers in this area, ranging from the authors of recent influential dissertations to prominent senior faculty.

Table of contents:
1. Why place and voice are different: constraint-specific alternations in optimality theory Linda Lombardi; 2. Constraints and representations in subsegmental phonology Cheryl Zoll; 3. Phonological contrast and articulatory effort Robert Kirchner; 4. Markedness, segment realization, and locality in spreading Máire Ní Chiosain and Jay Padgett; 5. Austronesian nasal substitution revisited: what's wrong with *NC (and what's not) Joe Pater; 6. A critical view of licensing by cue: codas and obstruents in Andalusian Spanish Chip Gerfen; 7. Segmental inmarkedness versus input preservation in reduplication Moira Yip; 8. Local conjunction and extending sympathy theory: OCP effects in Yucatec Maya Haruka Fukazawa; 9. Structure preservation and stratal opacity in German Junko Ito and Armin Mester.

There is now a body of work that concentrates on working out the details of featural phonology with optimality theory, demonstrating that it allows superior explanations of the typological possibilities and the underlying motivations for phenomena now found in segmental alterations. This volume brings together current work in this area.

Brings together work by scholars currently researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780521790574
• ISBN-10: 0521790573
• Artikelnr.: 21938531

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Introduction Linda Lombardy; Part I. The Content of
Representations: 1. Why place and voice are different: constraint-specific
alternations in optimality theory Linda Lombardi; 2. Constraints and
representations in subsegmental phonology Cheryl Zoll; 3. Phonological
contrast and articulatory effort Robert Kirchner; 4. Markedness, segment
realization, and locality in spreading Máire Níchiosain and Jaye Padgett;
Part II. The Content of Constraints: 5. Austronesian nasal substitution
revisited: what's wrong with *N¿C (and what's not) Joe Pater; 6. A critical
view of licensing by cue: codas and obstruents in Eastern Andalusian
Spanish Chip Gerfen; Part III. The Structure of the Grammar: Approaches to
Opacity; 7. Segmental unmarkedness versus input preservation in
reduplication Moira Yip; 8. Local conjunction and extending sympathy
theory: OCP effects in Yucatec Maya Haruka Fukazawa; 9. Structure
preservation and stratal opacity in German Junko Ito and Armin Mester;
Index.