Article: An introduction to phonetics and phonology, 3d ed.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Doing optimality theory; applying theory to ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2008 ;     479 words ... ... 00 Paperback P158 Optimality theory is a linguistic model ... major developers of optimality theory, explains its application ... model for writing up optimality theory analyses; describes ... c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland ...

Article: Optimality theory, phonological acquisition and ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2008 ;     487 words ...9781845531218 Optimality theory, phonological acquisition and ... 45.00 Paperback Advances in optimality theory P158 For linguists, psychologists ... Book Company. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

Article: Hidden generalizations; phonological opacity in optimality ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2007 ;     512 words ... ... generalizations; phonological opacity in optimality theory. McCarthy, John J. Equinox ... 39.95 Paperback Advances in optimality theory P217 McCarthy (linguistics ... Brown Book Co. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

Article: New theory about brain's mastery of language.(optimality ...
USA Today (Magazine);  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... so quickly. The idea, known as "optimality theory," could be used to learn more about ... kind of fine-tuning mechanism. Optimality theory was conceived by Paul Smolensky ... actually do it. We now have, with optimality theory, some very concrete proposals about ...

Dictionary definition: optimality theory
A Dictionary of Zoology;      239 words ...optimality theory The theory that behavioural strategies involve decisions which tend to maximize the efficiency of that behaviour.

Dictionary definition: Optimality Theory
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      298 words ...Optimality Theory. Theory of constraints in phonology, floated in the early to mid-1990s, in which any universal constraint on the form that ...

Article: The phonology of epenthetic stops: implications for the ...
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract This paper presents an OT analysis of stop epenthesis, which as well as reflecting the basic pattern of stop insertion can also model the available quantitative data on variability of stop epenthesis and the phonetic difference between epenthetic and underlying stops. However, accounting