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Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio – International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Reviews Tesar and Smolensky's, "Learnability in Optimality Theory" (2000). Discusses the main tenets of the book as well as the different topics included in each chapter. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Phonetics
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Gussmann, Edmund – Journal of Linguistics, 1992
Monik Charette's "Condition on Phonological Government" is reviewed. It is the first book-length study written in the framework of Government Phonology (GP), a theory that makes a dramatic break with the classical generative approaches to phonology. (Contains 10 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Typology
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Wolff, John U. – Language, 1997
Notes that the "Comparative Austronesian Dictionary" (CAD) is one of a series of comparative dictionaries planned to cover the major world language families. The CAD provides detailed information on 80 languages and additional data on the history of the Austronesian (AN) languages. Adds that the CAD gives reliable citations in a broad…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, Language Research