<OT> New Posting: ROA-845.9

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ROA 845.9-0606

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

Bruce Moren <bruce.moren at hum.uit.no>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=845.9


Abstract:
This paper touches on a range of conceptual and practical
issues that are relevant to current discussions regarding
the nature of the phonological component of the grammar,
including: featural, representational and constraint economy;
representation versus evaluation; computation versus competence;
the line between phonetics and phonology; categorical perception;
full-specification of features versus minimal/contrastive
specification; richness-of-the-base; the unrestricted candidate
set; universality of constraints; the lexicon; and phonological
acquisition.


The paper begins with a review of several conceptual issues
that arise when modeling the phonological grammar using
Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), highlights
some interesting general problems and possible solutions,
and then moves on to a detailed discussion of how one might
model the segment inventory (including phonetic dispersion
and variation) of Hawaiian in OT.

Comments: To be published in: Blaho, Sylvia, Patrik Bye and Martin Krämer (eds.) Freedom of Analysis?
Keywords: feature theory, economy, representation, computation, competence, phonetics, substance free, categorical perception, underspecification
Areas: Phonology
Type: Book Chapter

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=845.9