Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language change

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Constraints and Preferences: Introduction VII
4. Parameters and scales in syllable markedness: the right edge of the word in Malayalam 1
5. Constraints and processes in phonological perception 43
6. Phonotactic constraints are preferences 69
7. Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language change 101
8. Preferences as defaults in computational phonology 143
9. Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English, and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction 201
10. Hidden identity, or the double life of segments 229
11. Working with licensing constraints 251
12. Rules vs. constraints in modeling phonological change: the case of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico 269
13. Are optimality theoretical "constraints" the same as natural linguistic "preferences"? 291
14. Abstractness in phonology: the case of virtual geminates 311
15. Constraints, preferences, and context-sensitivity in morphology 339
16. Old English fricatives: lenition and licensing 359
17. Index 391
18. 403-404 403