A key difference between OT and many other linguistic theories is the absence of
parametrization. In OT, languages differ in constraint ranking and not in parameter values …

The current chapter presents an approach to faithfulness that is rooted in the analysis of
reduplication. The faithfulness/reduplication connection might at first seem unexpected, but …

The technical production of this handbook has been a joint effort by several groups involving
a large number of people, and the success of the coordination process in itself is by no …

This chapter is a substantially reworked version of a position paper on laboratory phonology
published in Current Trends in Phonology I (Durand & Laks 1996). For comments on …

This chapter studies the nature of the typology of phonological markedness constraints and
the nature of the typology of the transformation from underlying to surface forms from a …

Computational phonology approaches the study of sound patterns in the world's languages
from a computational perspective. This article explains this perspective and its relevance to …

Abstract Beginning with Goldsmith (1976), the phonological tier has a long history in
phonological theory to describe non-local phenomena. This paper defines a class of formal …

This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to
the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building …

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax,
computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and …

When phonological rules are regarded as declarative descriptions, it is possible to construct
a model of phonology in which rules and representations are no longer distinguished and …