Optimality Theory and Language Change
Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; -shows that th
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 56 Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, City University ofNew York Liliane Haegeman, University 0/ Lille Joan Mating, Brandeis University
Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of venice Carol Georgopoulos, University 0/ Utah Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University 0/ Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology John J. McCarthy, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University 0/ Cambridge
The titles published in this series are listed at the end a/this volume .
OPTIMALITY THEORY AND LANGUAGECHANGE Edited by
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ISBN 978-1-4020-1470-3 ISBN 978-94-010-0195-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0195-3
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DEDICATION For
Martha Bean (1943-2001) Betchen Barber Lucian
TABLE OF CONTENTS List of contributors
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Acknowledgem ents
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PART 1: OPTIMALITY THEORY AND LANGUAGECHANGE: OVERVIEW AND THEORETICALISSUES 1.
D. ERIC HOLT / Remarks on Optimality Theory and language change
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PAULBOERSMA / The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory 31
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RANDALLGESS / On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change
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RICARDO BERMUDEZ-OTERO & RICHARD M. HOGG / The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss
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APRIL McM AHON / When history doesn't repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes
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CHARLES REISS / Language change without constraint reranking
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PART II: CASE STUDIES OF PHONOLOGICALCHANGE 7. 8. 9.
DONKA MrNKovA & ROBERT STOCKWELL / English vowel shifts and 'optimal ' diphthongs : Is there a logical link?
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VIOLA MIGLIO & BRUCE MOREN/ Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction : An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift
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HAIKEJACOBS / The emergence of quantity-sensitivityin Latin: Secondary stress, Iambic Shortening and theoretical implications for 'mixed' stress systems
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10. CONXITA LLEO / Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language
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11 . D. ERIC HOLT / The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating
