| ROA: | 844.11 |
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| Title: | On theoretical facts and empirical abstractions |
| Authors: | Paul Smolensky |
| Comment: | |
| Length: | 25 |
| Abstract: | My goal is to argue the merits of a type of work that is somewhat rare in linguistics, and to illustrate this kind of work in three domains: phonological inventories and conjunctive constraint interaction, non-participating segments in vowel harmony, and the general nature of phonological categories like 'possible word of language L'. Note: this is a chapter of ROA-844, Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Formal Analysis |
| Article: | Version 1 |