Optimality Theory is a general model of how grammars are structured. This article surveys
the motivations for Optimality Theory, its core principles, and the basics of analysis. It also …

Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for
undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises …

Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of
phonological opacity. Opacity arises when the conditions for or results of an active …

This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of
analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely …

This paper argues that exceptions and other instances of morpheme-specific phonology are
best analyzed in Optimality Theory (OT) in terms of lexically indexed markedness and …

This dissertation is an empirical and theoretical study of sentence-level prosody in
Conamara (Connemara) Irish. It addresses the architecture of the syntax-phonology …

This dissertation proposes a novel theory of the phonology-morphology interface called
Optimal Interleaving (OI). OI is based on Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) …

When a medial consonant cluster is simplified by deletion or place assimilation, the first
consonant is affected, but never the second one:/patka/becomes [paka] and …

A number of phonological laws require adjacent elements to stand a certain distance apart
from each other on some prominence scale. For example, according to the Syllable Contact …

Morphemes often behave differently phonologically in ways that cannot be explained purely
phonologically: one morpheme undergoes or triggers a process while another morpheme …