Markedness
Markedness Markedness is a linguistics concept that developed out ... the form that is the least marked. Markedness originally developed from phonology – where phonetic ... features, such as voicing, nasalization or roundedness. Markedness is still an influential concept in current ... and ordering have to do with the markedness of a form. The concept of ...
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Optimality theory
... into two main types: faithfulness constraints and markedness constraints. A faithfulness constraint requires that the ... typically generated by some simple rule. A markedness constraint imposes some requirement on the form ... case, the form cats passes all the markedness constraints: it is a well-formed word ... case of class+s , there is a markedness constraint that prohibits the classs form (presumably ... s/ sounds in succession in English). The markedness constraint is assumed to be ranked ...
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Talk:Optimality theory
... candidate has worse faithfulness and no better markedness than a competitor candidate) that is uninfluenced ... candidate has worse faithfulness and no better markedness than a competitor candidate) that is uninfluenced ... way around also. (Admittedly, some forms of markedness are less easy to believe when reversed ... within the framework of OT. Claim 2: markedness Now, let's take that other example ...
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Roman Jakobson
... functional theory of phonology, based on a markedness hierarchy of distinctive features, was the first ... the field to this day: linguistic typology, markedness, and linguistic universals. The three concepts are ... grammatical features (as opposed to shared origin), markedness is (very roughly) a study of how ...
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Paul Smolensky
... conjunction of constraints, the idea that two markedness constraints can combine into a single markedness constraint that has a stronger effect than ...
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Aditi Lahiri   (translated from German)
... and Jonas Obleser, Konstanz 2003 Analogy, levelling, markedness. Principles OF CHANGE in phonology and morphology ...
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North Central Romani
... 41–62. Elšík, Viktor, and Yaron Matras. 2006. Markedness and language change: The Romani sample. Berlin ...
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Obligatory Contour Principle
... is it the local self-conjunction of markedness constraints (Alderete 1997)? These and other issues ...
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Obligatory contour principle
... it the local self-conjunction of a markedness constraint (Alderete 1997). These and other issues ...
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Category:Linguistics
... Malay-based creole languages Mama and papa Markedness The Meaning of Meaning Meeussen's rule ...
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