Optimality Theory

Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Av Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, Jeroen van de Weijer, and affiliated with the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics) Dekkers, Joost (Research Assistant in Syntax, Research Assistant in Syntax, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam) Leeuw, Frank van der (Guest Researcher and former Research Assistant in Phonology, Guest Researcher and former Research Assistant in Phonology, and coordinator of the Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics) Weijer, Jeroen van de (Junior Lecturer in Phonology at the Department of Linguistics, Junior Lecturer in Phonology at the Department of Linguistics, Leiden University, Frank Van Der Leeuw, Jeroen van de Weijer

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Optimality Theory substitutes constraints for rules in universal grammar and linguistic performance. Constraints are ranked so that a lower-ranked constraint may be violated in order to satisfy a higher. OT has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the first fruits of such research as applied to syntax and to language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack on OT by rule-based grammarians (for example, that constraints are ad hoc, limitless, or themselves contain rules).