The past two decades have seen the development of several constraint-based models of
phonological grammar that can handle variable phenomena. Most of these models …

The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two
objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of …

The birthdate of both generative linguistics and neural networks can be taken as 1957, the
year of the publication of foundational work by both Noam Chomsky and Frank Rosenblatt …

This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and
attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of …

Harmonic Grammar is a model of linguistic constraint interaction in which well-formedness is
calculated in terms of the sum of weighted constraint violations. We show how linear …

This paper examines the factors conditioning the production of linguistic variables in real
time by individual speakers: what we term the dynamics of variation in individuals. We …

This article expands on cophonologies by phase, a model of the interface between
morphology and phonology, which was introduced in Sande & Jenks 2018. The crucial …

Opaque phonological patterns are sometimes claimed to be difficult to learn; specific
hypotheses have been advanced about the relative difficulty of particular kinds of opaque …

This article investigates the development of the palatalization contrast in Slavic from
diachronic, synchronic, and phonetic perspectives. The diachrony of this contrast is an …

Phonological rules can be variable in two ways: they can apply to a subset of the lexicon
(lexical variation), or apply optionally, with a probability that depends on the phonological …