Constraints and Preferences /

Constraints and Preferences / / 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, Governmen...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (401 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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