A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory

By John J. McCarthy. 2001

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Against Formal Phonology (2005, background): “…course, the many nonlinguistic variations like those due to speaking rate, speaker idiosyncrasies, and vocal tract size), whereas Chomsky and Halle assume a closed set of phonetic options employed by phonetician-linguists whose transcriptions can be taken as the raw data for phonological analysis.”
Glides, vowels, and features (2008, background): “To capture this generalization, McCarthy (1999, 2002 ) suggests that there are no faithfulness constraints protecting syllable affiliation in Optimality Theory.”
Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. (2006, background): “A phonological analysis is proposed within Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), formalising the two-way relation between tone and prosodic prominence at all levels of the Prosodic Hierarchy.”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “Merker notes how findings about complex learned birdsong can explain how a prelinguistic human adaptation for emancipated song could provide a mechanism for sustaining and elaborating string transmission, even if this was timed before the full emergence of social cognition: it can be driven by the n”
The gradual path to cluster simplification* (2008, background): “For further discussion and applications of Harmonic Serialism, see McCarthy (2000, 2002b: 159–163, 2007a, b, forthcoming).”
Morphology, agreement and working memory retrieval in sentence production : Evidence from gender and case in Slovak (2007, background): “Optimality Theory is based on the idea that the structure of every language can be captured by a fixed set of violable constraints that are ranked with respect to one another.”
Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics (2009, methodology): “And finally, one might avoid transformations altogether and use the constraints to choose between lexically stored alternatives (see McCarthy, 2002 for an overview of allomorphy in OT).”