Output-Driven Phonology - Theory and Learning

In this book Bruce Tesar, one of the founders of the study of learnability in Optimality Theory, presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides a fresh perspective on the extent to which phonologies can be characterized in terms of restrictions on outputs.

List of contents

1. Characterizing surface orientedness in phonology; 2. Output-driven maps; 3. Output-driven maps in optimality theory; 4. Analysis of constraint behavior; 5. Learning phonotactics; 6. Learning with paradigmatic information; 7. Exploiting output-drivenness in learning; 8. Paradigmatic subsets; 9. Linguistic theory and language learnability.

About the author

Bruce Tesar is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Summary

In this book Bruce Tesar, one of the founders of the study of learnability in Optimality Theory, presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides a fresh perspective on the extent to which phonologies can be characterized in terms of restrictions on outputs.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Tesar, Bruce (Rutgers University Tesar, Tesar Bruce
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108790680
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79068-0
• No. of pages: 435
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology