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 from Prince and Smolensky's never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar.

• Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field.
  
• Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers.
  
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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 from Prince and Smolensky's never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar.

• Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field.
  
• Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers.
  
...

Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are markedly different from other linguistic theories, this book presents the analytic techniques and new ways of thinking and theorizing that are required.

• Explains how to do analysis and research using Optimality Theory (OT) - a branch of phonology that has revolutionized the field since its conception in 1993


• Offers practical, in-depth...

An anthology of works on phonology, morphology, syntax, animal communciation, cognitive science, and Optimality Theory by the colleagues and students of Alan Prince. Contributors include the New York Times best-selling author Steven Pinker, Prince's collaborators Paul Smolensky and John McCarthy, and others.

Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism introduces readers to current research in Optimality Theory that involves a reconsideration of two of Prince and Smolensky's (1993/2004) basic architectural decisions. One is the choice of constraint ranking over the numerically weighted constraints of OT's predecessor, Harmonic Grammar. The other is the choice of parallel evaluation over a version of OT in which the representation is changed and evaluated iteratively Harmonic Serialism. The contributions in this volume explore the consequences for phonological theory of adopting serial evaluation,...