Name: Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics) (en Inglés)
SKU: 18972714
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Author: April M. Mcmahon
ISBN: 9780198241256

portada Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics) (en Inglés)

Change, Chance, and Optimality (Oxford Linguistics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

April M. Mcmahon

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0198241259

ISBN13

9780198241256

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Categorías

Lingüística histórica y comparada

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This book is about how languages change. It is also a devastating critique of a widespread linguistic orthodoxy. April McMahon argues that to provide a convincing explanation of linguistic change the roles of history and contingency must be accommodated in linguistic theory. She also shows that theoretical work in related disciplines can be used to assess the value of such theories. Optimality Theory, or OT as it is usually called, dominates contemporary phonology, especially in the USA, and is becoming increasingly influential in syntax and language acquisition. Having set out its basis principles, Professor McMahon assesses their explanatory power in analysing language change and its residues in current phonological systems. Using cross-linguistic data, and drawing comparisons with other theories inside and outside linguistics, she shows that OT is incapable of accounting for language change, without the addition of rules and an appreciation of chance and historical contingency that would then undermine its theoretical underpinnings. OT relies on innateness and needs to discuss the origins of allegedly genetically-specified features. The author considers the nature and evolution of the human language capacity, and demonstrates a profound mismatch between the predictions of evolutionary biology and the claims for innateness made in OT.