Optimality Theory or Language in a Dodgeball Game

Optimality Theory or Language in a Dodgeball Game

The aim of this paper is to present Optimality theory (OT), one of the most prominent contemporary linguistic theories developed in the 1990s by two phonologists Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (1991/1993, 2004). In OT’s view language is in constant search for the optimal surface forms levelling betw...

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Main Author: Mia Batinić
Format: Article
Language:Croatian
Published: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 2014-01-01
Series:Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
Subjects:
optimality theory
linguistic theory
generative grammar
generative phonology
SPE natural phonology markedness voicing assimilation devoicing Croatian language Kajkavian
Online Access:http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/189205

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