Constraints and Preferences / / ed. by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Cyran, Eugeniusz,; Donegan, Patricia,; Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna,; Gaeta, Livio,; Gibbon, Dafydd,; Grijzenhout, Janet,; Gussmann, Edmund,; Kaye, Jonathan,; Loporcaro, Michele,; Ritt, Nikolaus,; Scheer, Tobias,; Singh, Rajendra,; Ségéral, Philippe,; Wójcik, Jerzy,
• HerausgeberIn: Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Katarzyna,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 134
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; Contents --; Constraints and Preferences: Introduction --; Parameters and scales in syllable markedness: the right edge of the word in Malayalam --; Constraints and processes in phonological perception --; Phonotactic constraints are preferences --; Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language change --; Preferences as defaults in computational phonology --; Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English, and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction --; Hidden identity, or the double life of segments --; Working with licensing constraints --; Rules vs. constraints in modeling phonological change: the case of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico --; Are optimality theoretical "constraints" the same as natural linguistic "preferences"? --; Abstractness in phonology: the case of virtual geminates --; Constraints, preferences, and context-sensitivity in morphology --; Old English fricatives: lenition and licensing --; Index --; 403-404
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110881066; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110881066
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk.

The central theme of this collection is the epistemological status of constraints and preferences in linguistics. The contributions focus mainly on phonology; one article deals explicitly with morphology. The approaches to phonology represented in the volume are those of Natural Phonology, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory, autosegemental phonology, and computational phonology. Constraints are juxtaposed either to rules or to preferences in the discussion of constraint-based vs. preference-based theories.