Optimality Theory: An Overview (Explaining Linguistics, 1)

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Summary: optimality theory and features
Review: I would like to recommend this book to the readers who are interested in optimality theory . I'm preparing for my dissertation on the features and optimality theory. I couldn't find good papers which deal with the features on the basis of optimality theory. The chapter "optimality and features" by pulleyblank accounts for a wide range of phonological features by the interaction of constraints. Within OT framework, he gives an idea of phonological representations and resolves the complexity of featural phenomena by the ranking between faithfulness and the conflicting constraints. Though this book lacks specific examples, the contents are quite satisfacory to get an overview on OT