This article surveys research in Spanish phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a formal linguistic framework based on ranked and violable constraints. Theoretical insights from OT enrich our understanding of Spanish phonology, and Spanish data also figure prominently in the latest theoretical developments within OT. The article concludes with areas for ongoing research and a bibl...

Computational phonology studies sound patterns in the world’s languages from a computational perspective. This article shows that the similarities between different generative theories outweigh the differences, and discusses stochastic grammars and learning models within phonology from a computational perspective. Also, it shows how the hypothesis that all sound patterns are subregular can be i...

By modeling phonology as a system of ranked violable constraints, Optimality Theory (OT) succeeded in bringing substantive universals and typological generalizations to bear on the analysis of individual phonological systems, and uncovered important generalizations that escaped classical generative phonology, such as top-down effects and the emergence of the unmarked, to name just two (Prince a...

Attention on constraint-based grammar formalisms such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) has focussed on syntax and semantics to the exclusion of phonology. This paper investigates the incorporation of a non-procedural theory of phonology into HPSG, based on the ‘one-level’ model of Bird & Ellison (1992). The standard rule-representation distinction is replaced by the description-ob...

Although behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested two distinct routes of phonological access, their neural substrates have not been clearly elucidated. Here, we designed an artificial language (based on Korean Hangul) that can be read either through addressed (i.e., whole word mapping) or assembled (i.e., grapheme-to-phoneme mapping) phonology. Two matched groups of native Engli...

Atchan is a Kwa language spoken by approximately 150,000 people in and around Abidjan southern Côte d’Ivoire. In this paper, I describe aspects of the phonology Atchan, including its consonant vowel inventory, syllable structure, patterns nasalisation, lexical grammatical tone. provide examples from primary data collected collaboration with native speakers Atchan. This article offers first comp...