The formal expression of markedness
This dissertation presents a formal theory of markedness, set within Optimality Theory. Two of the leading ideas are (a) hierarchical markedness relations may be ignored, but never reversed and (b) the more marked an element is, the greater the pressure to preserve it. ^ An example of (a) is found...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2002
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3068550 |