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 | #1757360 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2001-12-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.75 x5.98l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 332 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| excellent|By oddu@xprmntl.org|About me: I'm in molecular biology. I read this book because I was interested in if and how "Optimality Theory" manages to capture and explain the phenomena of structural complexity and structural diversity in language. I can only review the book from my "outsider" position.

I think Optimality Theory in its simplicity and brilliance riva| |'The most attractive virtue of this book is that it is designed to be user-friendly ... I believe that this book makes a considerable contribution to the field ... we would like to welcome this book as a textbook or an adjunct to another textbook or a referenc

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from phonology, morphology, and syntax, but the emphasis throughout is on the theory rather than the examples, on understanding what is special about OT and on equipping readers to apply it, extend it, and critique it in their own areas of interest. The book's coverage extends to work on first- and second-...

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