Joshua M. Griffiths

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joshua M. Griffiths plays a role.

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Griffiths, Joshua M. 2019 On the rapid expansion of optimality theory at the end of the twentieth century Historiographia Linguistica 46:1/2, pp. 133–162 | Article
Despite being a recent development in generative linguistics, Optimality Theory (OT, Prince & Smolensky 1993) has had a profound impact on linguistics, particularly on phonology in North America. OT posits that observed forms of language arise due to conflicting linguistic constraints. When… read more