This article offers an omissive critique of integral theory. To this objective, the draws upon dialectical logic to investigate affinities between theory and critical realism. Section 1 identifies new possibilities regarding role metatheory in practice by unpacking metatheoretical coordinates realism After providing a brief history origins theory, I review ontological, epistemological, methodol...

1 A challenge for OT 1.1 Compensatory lengthening as weight conservation Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989). Compensatory lengthening is most often triggered by the deletion ...