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The Battle That Disney Should Have Won, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

An oldie but goodie

Review Article Of P. Wexler.The Schizoid Nature Of Modern Hebrew: A Slavic Language In Search Of A Semitic Past, Shmuel Bolozky

Shmuel Bolozky

No abstract provided.

Nonconcatenative Morphology, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

No abstract provided.

The Emergence Of The Unmarked: Optimality In Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

This paper identifies and illustrates a key consequence of Optimality Theory called 'emergence of the unmarked'. In OT, a constraint can be active even if it is crucially dominated. A low-ranking markedness constraint, then, can decide between candidates, as long as they tie on all higher-ranking constraints. The linguistic structure that is unmarked with respect to this constraint can emerge in such circumstances.

This notion is applied to a core problem in the theory of Prosodic Morphology, that of defining templates. The frequently encountered minimal-word template is shown to emerge from markedness constraints on prosodic structure.

The Phonetics And Phonology Of Semitic Pharyngeals, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

The guttural segments of the Semitic languages form a natural class.

Two Lectures On Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

No abstract provided.

Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

An overview of results in the theory of prosodic morphology.