Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory

Brings together work by scholars researching the details of featural phonology with optimality theory.

List of contributors; Introduction Linda Lombardy; Part I. The Content of Representations: 1. Why place and voice are different: constraint-specific alternations in optimality theory Linda Lombardi; 2. Constraints and representations in subsegmental phonology Cheryl Zoll; 3. Phonological contrast and articulatory effort Robert Kirchner; 4. Markedness, segment realization, and locality in spreading Máire Níchiosain and Jaye Padgett; Part II. The Content of Constraints: 5. Austronesian nasal substitution revisited: what's wrong with *N¿C (and what's not) Joe Pater; 6. A critical view of licensing by cue: codas and obstruents in Eastern Andalusian Spanish Chip Gerfen; Part III. The Structure of the Grammar: Approaches to Opacity; 7. Segmental unmarkedness versus input preservation in reduplication Moira Yip; 8. Local conjunction and extending sympathy theory: OCP effects in Yucatec Maya Haruka Fukazawa; 9. Structure preservation and stratal opacity in German Junko Ito and Armin Mester; Index.