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| Title: | The Conspiracy of Completeness |
| Authors: | Thomas Green |
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| Length: | 11 |
| Abstract: | The Conspiracy of Completeness Thomas Green MIT In this paper, I would like to step back and examine an issue which eventually bears on all work in OT: exactly how does UG delimit the set of possible constraints, and how does this affect the makeup of particular grammars? The outcome will be to show that the theory of possible constraints can be made maximally general without necessarily predicting an explosion of bizarre unattested language types. This result relies crucially on a particular proposal concerning the cor- rect way to represent notions of structural and inherent segmental prominence. The two conclusions are not independent, and the utility of the demonstrated conspiracy effect may be taken as indirect support for the representational assumptions it requires. |
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| Article: | Version 1 |