Change, Chance, and Optimality

McMahon, April (Lecturer in Historical Linguistics and Phonology, University of Cambridge)
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Hardback
212 pages
Published: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198241240

Setting out the basic principles of the increasingly dominant phonological model of Optimality Theory, this text assesses its applicability to issues of language variation and change. The author's conclusions add up to a devastating critique of current o