Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Subject "Optimality"
Now showing items 1-2 of 2
-
CONSONANT CLUSTER SIMPLIFICATION IN KOREAN CODAS: LANGUAGE-INTERNAL AND LANGUAGE-EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS INTERFACE WITH REFERENCE TO OPTIMALITY THEORY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)In Korean, when a morpheme contains a coda cluster in its underlying form (such as /salm/‘life,’ /hulk/‘soil’), we observe two outcomes in its surface representation. In cases when the morpheme followed by either another ... -
A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN PAME
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)This dissertation describes the phonology and morphology of Northern Pame, an Otomanguean language of Central Mexico. Furthermore, it explains the grammatical relationship of these domains from an Optimality Theoretic ...