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Change, Chance, and Optimality McMahon, April (Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield)
Change, Chance, and Optimality
McMahon, April (Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, Professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield)
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.
212 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 16, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198241249 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 212 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 241 × 19 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |