Constraints and Preferences (Editor: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk)

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New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter!!!!

>>From the series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Series Editors: Walter Bisang, Werner Winter

Constraints and Preferences
Edited by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk
2001. 23 x 15,5 cm. xix, 401 pages. Cloth.
DM 218,- / öS 1591,- (RRP) / sFr 187,- / approx. US$ 108.00 /
>>From 01.01.2002: EUR 108,-
ISBN 3-11-017047-7

(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 134)

The central theme of this collection is the epistemological status of
constraints and preferences in linguistics. The contributions focus
mainly on phonology; one article deals explicitly with morphology. The
approaches to phonology represented in the volume are those of Natural
Phonology, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory, autosegemental
phonology, and computational phonology. Constraints are juxtaposed
either to rules or to preferences in the discussion of constraint-based
vs. preference-based theories.

FROM THE CONTENTS:
Eugeniusz Cyran: Parameters and scales in syllable markedness: the right

edge of the word in Malayalam
Patricia Donegan:Constraints and processes in phonological perception
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk: Phonotactic constraints are preferences
Livio Gaeta: Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language

change
Dafydd Gibbon: Preferences as defaults in computational phonology
Janet Grijzenhout: Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English

and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction
Edmund Gussmann: Hidden identity, or the double life of segments
Jonathan Kaye: Working with licensing constraints
Michele Loporcaro: Rules vs. constraints in modeling phonological
change: the case of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico
Nikolaus Ritt: Are optimality theoretical "constraints" the same as
natural linguistic "preferences"?
Philippe Ségéral and Tobias Scheer: Abstractness in phonology: the case
of virtual geminates
Rajendra Singh: Constraints, preferences, and context-sensitivity in
morphology
Jerzy Wójcik: Old English fricatives: lenition and licensing


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