Violable constraints in language production: Testing the transitivity assumption of optimality theory

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 272-299

  Guest, Daniel J ^a   Dell, Gary S ^a   Cole, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Language production; Optimality theory; Phonology; Stress; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001090914     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2679     Document Type: Article

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