Available for the first time in book form, Prince and Smolensky?s Optimality Theory is the seminal work in the field. This influential work: • Defines grammatical well–formedness as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints • Presents the theory both through examples and formally, emphasizing its core commitments: strict domination, the Markedness/Faithfulness distinction, strong universality of the constraint set, interlinguistic variation as variation in ranking • Illuminates generalization patterns shared across empirically diverse phenomena ranging from epenthesis to infixation to complex dependencies among prominence, syllabification, stress and word–form • Derives universals of basic syllable structure and constructs a prosodic theory based on multipolar scales, laying the groundwork for a domain–general approach to gradient interactions • Shows how to obtain universal and...

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