Optimality Theory in Phonology A Reader [Paperback]

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• Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field.
  
• Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers.
  
• Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar.
  
• Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.

Contributors’Addresses.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: The Basics.

1 Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. (Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky).

2 Generalized Alignment: Introduction and Theory. (John J. McCarthy and Alan Prince).

3 Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology. (John J. McCarthy and Alan Prince).

Part II: Formal Analysis.

4 Computing Optimal Forms in Optimality Theory: Basic Syllabification. (Bruce Tesar).

5 Learnability in Optimality Theory. (Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky).

6 Non-computable Functions in Optimality Theory. (Elliott Moreton).

Part III: Prosody.

7 Generalized Alignment: Prosody. (John J. McCarthy and Alan Prló+