Freedom of Analysis?
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Freedom of Analysis?

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Freedom of Analysis?

About this book

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 articulated theories of segmental and prosodic representation desirable?

(2) What restrictions might there be on the operations that Gen carries out on representations? Should Gen be endowed with structure-changing potential, as assumed in work couched within Correspondence Theory, or is a return to the principle of Containment preferable? Should Gen be restricted in the number of edits it can carry out at any one time? Should Gen be restricted to generating phonetically interpretable candidates?

(3) What is the relationship between Gen and functionally arbitrary or opaque phonological patterns? Should Gen's freedom be restricted in order to account for language-specific phonology?

The solutions offered to these questions bear significantly on current issues that are of fundamental concern in linguistic theory, including representations, parallelism vs. serialism, and the division of labour between linguistic modules. The authors scrutinize these issues using data from a variety of unrelated languages, including Czech, English, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Lardil, Spanish, Turkish, and Yowlumne.

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Yes, you can access Freedom of Analysis? by Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, Martin Krämer, Sylvia Blaho,Patrik Bye,Martin Krämer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Filología & Gramática y puntuación. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783110193596
eBook ISBN
9783110198591
Edition
1
Topic
Filología
Subtopic
Gramática y puntuación

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Freedom of Analysis?
  4. Chapter 2 Laryngeal Underspecification and Richness of the Base
  5. Chapter 3 Underlying representations that do not minimize grammatical violations
  6. Chapter 4 Allomorphy – selection, not optimization
  7. Chapter 5 A freer input: Yowlumne opacity and the Enriched Input Model
  8. Chapter 6 Derived Environment Effects and Consistency of Exponence
  9. Chapter 7 Colored turbid accents and containment: A case study from lexical stress
  10. Chapter 8 Freedom, Interpretability, and the Loop
  11. Chapter 9 Restraint of Analysis
  12. Chapter 10 The roles of GEN and CON in modeling ternary rhythm
  13. Chapter 11 Representational complexity in syllable structure and its consequences for GEN and CON
  14. Chapter 12 Restricting GEN
  15. Chapter 13 The division of labor between segment-internal structure and violable constraints
  16. Chapter 14 Variables in Optimality Theory
  17. Backmatter