Book of Donmon Teith

This is the third collection of papers in Optimality Theory to be published in the University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers (UMOP) series. Many of these pa

Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt f

This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as opt