Change, Chance, and Optimality

This book is about how languages change. It is also a critique of Optimality Theory - the dominant theory in contemporary phonology and increasingly influential throughout linguistics. The author sets out its basis principles and shows it to be incapable of explaining either language change or variation.

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• Autori: April Mcmahon, April (Professor in the Department of Eng Mcmahon, April (Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics McMahon, April M McMahon, April M. McMahon, April M. S. McMahon, McMahon April
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198241249
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824124-9
• Pagine: 212
• Serie: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Dialect, slang & jargon, Phonetics, phonology, Dialect, slang and jargon