Freedom of analysis? / edited by Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, Martin Kramer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blaho, Sylvia, 1979-

Bye, Patrik.

Krämer, Martin, 1969-

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 95.

Studies in generative grammar ; 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Optimality theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them. These are issues that have been sidelined since the shift in emphasis in phonological research to functionally grounded output-oriented constraints. Taking Optimality Theory as their starting point, the articles attack the question to what degree the Generator function Gen should be given freedom of analysis on three fronts. (1) What is the nature of the representations that Gen manipulates? Is a return to more articulated theories of segmental and prosodic representation desirable? (2) What restrictions might there be on the operations that Gen carries out on representations? Should Gen be endowed with structure-changing potential, as assumed in work couched within Correspondence Theory, or is a return to the principle of Containment preferable? Should Gen be restricted in the number of edits it can carry out at any one time? Should Gen be restricted to generating phonetically interpretable candidates? (3) What is the relationship between Gen and functionally arbitrary or opaque phonological patterns? Should Gen's freedom be restricted in order to account for language-specific phonology? The solutions offered to these questions bear significantly on current issues that are of fundamental concern in linguistic theory, including representations, parallelism vs. serialism, and the division of labour between linguistic modules. The authors scrutinize these issues using data from a variety of unrelated languages, including Czech, English, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Lardil, Spanish, Turkish, and Yowlumne.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1 Freedom of Analysis?

Chapter 2 Laryngeal Underspecification and Richness of the Base

Chapter 3 Underlying representations that do not minimize grammatical violations

Chapter 4 Allomorphy - selection, not optimization

Chapter 5 A freer input: Yowlumne opacity and the Enriched Input Model

Chapter 6 Derived Environment Effects and Consistency of Exponence

Chapter 7 Colored turbid accents and containment: A case study from lexical stress

Chapter 8 Freedom, Interpretability, and the Loop

Chapter 9 Restraint of Analysis

Chapter 10 The roles of GEN and CON in modeling ternary rhythm

Chapter 11 Representational complexity in syllable structure and its consequences for GEN and CON

Chapter 12 Restricting GEN

Chapter 13 The division of labor between segment-internal structure and violable constraints

Chapter 14 Variables in Optimality Theory

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-372) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612194498

9781282194496

1282194496

9783110198591

3110198592

OCLC:

476197067