Cumulative ill-formedness in typological and experimental data
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Ohala and Ohala (1986) present experimental results that are problematic for Chomsky and Halle’s (1968) model of phonotactic knowledge. They point out that the SPE theory does not distinguish between a word with one ill-formed structure and a word with multiple instances of ill-formedness. Cumulative ill-formedness equally plays no role in standard Optimality Theory (OT: Prince and Smolensky 2004).
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