In this tutorial we present evidence that, because syntax does not fully predict the way that
spoken utterances are organized, prosody is a significant issue for studies of auditory …

This article surveys the state of the art in the field of semantic universals. We examine
potential semantic universals in three areas:(i) the lexicon,(ii) semantic “glue”(functional …

Optimality Theory first gained wide exposure from a course taught by Prince and Smolensky
at the 1991 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. The earliest and still the …

In A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which
relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word structure to be the result of …

Prosodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is finally available again." Nespor &
Vogel 1986" is a citation classic, and even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the …

This paper deals with two distinct but inextricably connected sets of questions in the area of
sentence phonology. The first concerns the organisation of sentence phonology and the …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

Prosodic Morphology (McCarthy and Prince 1986 et seq.) is a theory of how morphological
and phonological determinants of linguistic form interact with one another in a grammatical …

The study of phonotactics is a central topic in phonology. We propose a theory of
phonotactic grammars and a learning algorithm that constructs such grammars from positive …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …