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How to pronounce “optimality theory”
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- Phishing for Phools
And that leaves to some kind of optimality
- Definition summary
- (linguistics) A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.
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How to pronounce optimality theory
Phishing for Phools
And that leaves to some kind of optimality
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.
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