24.669, Books: Blocking and Complementarity in Phonological Theory: Bakovi ć

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From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Blocking and Complementarity in Phonological Theory: Baković

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Title: Blocking and Complementarity in Phonological Theory 
Series Title: Advances in Optimality Theory  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=277&keyword=blocking 

Author: Eric J. Baković

Hardback: ISBN:  9781845533366 Pages: 166 Price: U.K. £ 60
Hardback: ISBN:  9781845533366 Pages: 166 Price: U.S. $ 90

Abstract:

Disjunctive application is a type of interaction between phonological mappings
that has received special attention since the inception of generative
phonology (Chomsky & Halle 1968) and has significantly impacted research in
other subfields in linguistics. The principle commonly held to be responsible
for disjunctive application, the Elsewhere Condition (Kiparsky 1973), is
argued in this book to be little more than a collection of necessary
stipulations within Chomsky & Halle's original SPE framework. By contrast,
disjunctive application is shown to follow automatically from the most basic
assumptions of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), with no added
stipulations necessary.

The stage for these demonstrations is set with in-depth discussion of the
history and analysis of blocking interactions, of which disjunctive
application is a special case. The distinguishing feature of disjunctive
application is shown to be complementarity. The analyses of two types of
complementarity (allophonic or ‘unbounded’ complementary distribution as
opposed to ‘bounded’ complementary distribution) in both SPE and Optimality
Theory are discussed in detail, and it is shown that both have been analyzed
very differently in SPE but very similarly in Optimality Theory.

The various stipulated components of the Elsewhere Condition are then
discussed and contrasted with the lack of any such stipulation in Optimality
Theory. This is followed by a proof of two theorems within Optimality Theory
that solidify the result that two mappings in a particular formal relation to
each other are bound to apply in complementary fashion.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Phonology

Written In: English  (eng)

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