Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
5. Sources of phonological structure
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
John J. McCarthy [+]
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John J. McCarthy is Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Graduate School, and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Hidden Generalizations: Phonological Opacity in Optimality Theory (Equinox 2007).
Kathryn Pruitt [+]
Arizona State University
Kathryn Pruitt is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from UMass Amherst in 2012. She specializes in phonological theory with emphasis on metrical structure and stress typology.
Description
This chapter explicitly compares the derivation of metrical structure in harmonic serialism (HS) to the structure building operations found in MP, and claims that 'both theories seek to explain the derivation of complex structures by deriving them via repeated application of simple operations under the control of an optimizing grammar.'