<OT> ROA-845

[Rutgers Optimality Archive]

Dear Optimal List subscribers:

Apologies for a problem with the most recent ROA submission. The link
to the paper in the original announcement was incorrect, and should
instead be:

http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=845

The full, corrected announcement follows.

-- Eric

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

Author: Bruce Morén, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical
Linguistics, Tromsö

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.

Comment: 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

Area: Phonology

Type: Book Chapter

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=845