Violable is variable: Optimality theory and linguistic variation

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-347

  Guy, Gregory R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85007980651     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394500001952     Document Type: Article

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