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Theoretical Linguistics, 2003 Abstract The markedness constraints of classic Optimality Theory assign violation-marks to output candidates without reference to the input or to other candidates. This article explores an alternative conception of markedness: markedness constraints compare the candidate under evaluation with another candidate, the most faithful one ...
McCarthy, John J., John J. Mccarthy
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The markedness of the unmarked [PDF]
Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2006 There are several phonological categories whose markedness-as inferred from typical markedness metrics- fails to match the representational complexity posited for them. More specifically, glottal stops, geminate clusters, and onsetless syllables are representationally the simplest of their category, yet other criteria, like implicational hierarchies ...
Szigetvári, Péter
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Cumulative Effect Of Markeness In Phonology
Al-Lisaniyyat, 2020 The essence of this research can be encoded as: “towards a dual marked/ unmarked thought of language surface representations”. Accordingly, this research is an attempt to offer a thorough description of a modern and highly influential theory known as ...
Hiba Zaidi
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Markedness in the Acquisition of Kiswahili Phonology: An Optimality Theory Perspective
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2022 Child language acquisition process is, among other factors, determined by the degree of linguistic markedness of the structures under acquisition. In the acquisition of phonology, phonological markedness has been posited to affect both the rate and ...
Henry Simiyu Nandelenga
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Comparative markedness (long version) [PDF]
, 2002 The markedness constraints of classic Optimality Theory assign violation-marks to output candidates without reference to the input or to other candidates.
McCarthy, John J
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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2009 With the Selective Fossilization Hypothesis (SFH), Han (2009) cites the synergy of first language (L1) markedness and second language (L2) input robustness as a determinant of selective fossilization and, in doing so, returns the construct of markedness ...
Rosette Bambino Finneran
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Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 With the Selective Fossilization Hypothesis (SFH), Han (2009) cites the synergy of first language (L1) markedness and second language (L2) input robustness as a determinant of selective fossilization and, in doing so, returns the construct of markedness ...
Rosette Bambino Finneran
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Phonotactics in the Turkish Language [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2022 The main purpose of this paper is to explore the phonotactic structure of the Turkish phonological system on the basis of an extensive Turkish linguistic corpus.
Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi
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Degraded acceptability and markedness in syntax, and the stochastic interpretation of optimality theory [PDF]
, 2004 The argument that I tried to elaborate on in this paper is that the conceptual problem behind the traditional competence/performance distinction does not go away, even if we abandon its original Chomskyan formulation. It returns as the question about the
Vogel, Ralf
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Zvolací výpovědi v češtině: kontrastivní pohled [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023 The text focuses on the formal realization of the communicative function of exclamation in Czech. Since Czech exclamative sentences do not constitute a separate formally distinct sentence type, we apply a contrastive (English — Czech) corpus-assisted ...
Markéta Malá , Zuzana Nádraská
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