新书推荐丨《优选论主题指南》

语音学与音系学经典丛书

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优选论（Optimality Theory）是由音系学家Alan Prince和认知科学家Paul Smolensky于20世纪90年代初创立的一种语言学理论。它是对生成语法的继承与发展，优选论虽源自音系学领域，但并不止步于此。优选论现已广泛应用于语言研究的各个方面，真正成为一种普遍的语法理论。

——马秋武：《什么是音系学》

内容简介

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from phonology, morphology, and syntax, but the emphasis throughout is on the theory rather than the examples, on understanding what is special about OT and on equipping readers to apply it, extend it, and critique it in their own areas of interest. To enhance the book’s usefulness for researchers in allied disciplines, the top-down view of OT extends to work on first-and second-language acquisition, phonetics and functional phonology, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Furthermore, to situate OT for those coming from other traditions, this book also contains much discussion of OT’s intellectual origins, its predecessors, and its contemporary competitors.

Each chapter concludes with extensive suggestions for further reading, classified by topics and supplemented by a massive bibliography (more than 800 items). The book ends with a list of frequently asked questions about Optimality Theory, with brief answers and pointers to a fuller treatment in the text.

目录

How to Use This Book

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1 The Core of Optimality Theory

2 The Context of Optimality Theory

3 The Results of Optimality Theory

4 The Connections of Optimality Theory

Epilogue

Appendices

丛书书目

英语音系（The Sound Pattern of English）

Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle著

语言学批评性引论（A Critical Introduction to Phonetics）

Ken Lodge著

音系学引论（An Introduction to Phonology）

Francis Katamba著

优选论主题指南（A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory）

John J.McCarthy著

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作者简介

John J. McCarthy began his work on Optimality Theory in1992, when he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research on prosodic morphology. He is the author of Formal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology (1985) and has co-edited three books, including The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition (1981). Dr. McCarthy has served on the editorial boards of Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Phonology.

思飞学术

上海外语教育出版社学术事业部

上海外语教育学术出版中心（上海市新闻出版局授牌运作）

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