Book of Donmon Teith

Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguis

This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraint

This volume, first published in 2001, brings together work by scholars researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.

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

Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.