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Overview
This book develops the hypothesis that morphologically-related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints.
Synopsis
This book develops the hypothesis that morphologically-related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints.
Booknews
This dissertation, highly technical and perhaps accessible only to linguistics PhDs, develops the hypothesis that "morphologically- related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints. Pairs of surface forms are linked by a transderivational or output-to-output (OO) correspondence relation. Through ranking, constraints on the OO-correspondence relation may force a derived word to deviate from canonical surface patterns of the language in order to be more like its output base. This theory obviates the traditional analysis that deviant phonology in complex words is the product of cyclic derivation. Given transderivational relations, cyclic effects are produced by constraint interaction in nonprocedural Optimality Theory." Benua earned her doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)