Optimality Account of Stress in Standard British and Nigerian English
Gideon Sunday Omachonu
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Optimality Account of Stress in Standard British and Nigerian English

Optimality Theory Account of Stress in Standard British and Nigerian English

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The book holds that OT satisfies the requirement that any serious theory of phonology must rely on well-formedness constraints, which means it must be committed to universal grammar. This way, what marks individual or core grammar from the universal is the order in which these constraints apply. By implication,a language specific grammar therefore is but a means of resolving conflicting universal constraints. The book has also shown how the constraint ordering in SBE is re-ordered in NE, arguing that the different constraint ordering notwithstanding, these constraints are the same, and are pre...