Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics)

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2000
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This book is about how languages change. It is also a critique of Optimality Theory - the dominant theory in contemporary phonology and increasingly influential throughout linguistics. The author sets out its basis principles and shows it to be incapable of explaining either language change or variation.

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This book is about how languages change. It is also a critique of Optimality Theory - the dominant theory in contemporary phonology and increasingly influential throughout linguistics. The author sets out its basis principles and shows it to be incapable of explaining either language change or variation.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 07 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0198241240
ISBN 13: 9780198241249

Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics)

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$187.81

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