and another one that might be interesting, to me at least...just in case anyone is interested.<br><br>cindy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <<a href="mailto:roa@ruccs.rutgers.edu">roa@ruccs.rutgers.edu</a>><br>
Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM<br>Subject: <OT> New Posting: ROA-959<br>To: <a href="mailto:optimal@camba.ucsd.edu">optimal@camba.ucsd.edu</a><br><br><br>ROA 959-0308<br>
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Gradient Phonotactics and the Complexity Hypothesis<br>
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Arto Anttila <<a href="mailto:anttila@stanford.edu">anttila@stanford.edu</a>><br>
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Abstract:<br>
Lexical items can be more or less well-formed depending<br>
on the phoneme combinations they contain. This phenomenon<br>
is called gradient phonotactics. We propose an approach<br>
to gradient phonotactics based on Optimality Theory (Prince<br>
and Smolensky 1993/2004). At the heart of the proposal is<br>
the Complexity Hypothesis that attributes the relative well-forme<br>
dness of a lexical item to its relative grammatical complexity<br>
measured in terms of ranking information: the more complex<br>
the lexical item, the less well-formed it is. The theory<br>
orders linguistic structures in an implicational hierarchy<br>
that reflects their relative well-formedness. Some implications<br>
are universal; others depend on language-specific rankings.<br>
The Complexity Hypothesis is supported by phonotactic data<br>
from Muna (Austronesian) as recently analyzed by Coetzee<br>
and Pater (2008).<br>
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Comments: To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<br>
Keywords: gradient phonotactics, implicational universals, factorial typologies<br>
Areas: Phonology<br>
Type: Journal Article<br>
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