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Author Blaho, Sylvia, 1979-

Title Freedom of Analysis?
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (396 pages)
Series Studies in Generative Grammar, v. 95
Studies in Generative Grammar, v. 95
Contents Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Freedom of Analysis?; Chapter 2 Laryngeal Underspecification and Richness of the Base; Chapter 3 Underlying representations that do not minimize grammatical violations; Chapter 4 Allomorphy -- selection, not optimization; Chapter 5 A freer input: Yowlumne opacity and the Enriched Input Model; Chapter 6 Derived Environment Effects and Consistency of Exponence; Chapter 7 Colored turbid accents and containment: A case study from lexical stress; Chapter 8 Freedom, Interpretability, and the Loop; Chapter 9 Restraint of Analysis
Summary This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them. These are issues that have been sidelined since the shift in emphasis in phonological research to functionally grounded output-oriented constraints. Taking Optimality Theory as their starting point, the articles attack the question to what degree the Generator function Gen should be given freedom of analysis on three fronts. (1) What is the nature of the representations that Gen manipulates? Is a return to more articulat
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Generative grammar.
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
Author Bye, Patrik
Krmer, Martin
ISBN 9783110198591
3110198592
1282194496
9781282194496