Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory. This article describes the
principles of Harmonic Serialism and the arguments for it. Evidence is drawn from the …

This paper establishes that unbounded circumambient processes, phonological processes
for which crucial information in the environment may appear unboundedly far away on both …

This article reviews the analysis of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Vowel harmony is a
phenomenon in which the vowels in a word or another domain show systematic agreement …

Harmonic Serialism (HS) is a variant of Optimality Theory. The difference between HS and
standard OT is that HS is a serial model and standard OT is a parallel model. In this chapter …

Abstract In standard Optimality Theory, faithfulness constraints are defined in terms of an
input-output correspondence relation, and similar constraints are applied to the …

We develop a novel optimization approach to tone. Its grammatical component consists of
the similarity-and proximity-based correspondence constraint framework of Agreement by …

Abstract We argue that Asante Twi has a process of tonal overwriting on verbs that are
crossed by an A'-dependency. It is shown that this view captures the distribution of the …

This paper proposes a model of stress assignment in which metrical structure is built serially,
one foot at a time, in a series of Optimality Theory (OT)-style evaluations. Iterative foot …

This dissertation provides support for the hypothesis that surface well-formedness in
phonological tone patterns is governed by language-specific, local constraints over …

The subject of this article is vowel harmony. In its prototypical form, this phenomenon
involves agreement between all vowels in a word for some phonological property (such as …