Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 16, 2001, 13:39 |
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SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
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>>learned. As long as people continue to create "arbitrary" constraints
>>based on a description of the data, rather than use some kind of
>>theoretical guidelines, Optimality Theorists are likely to get
>>many explanatory results.
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> Oops. That end should read: "Optimality Theorists aren't likely to get..."
Oh. And here I read it as "are likely to get too many explanatory
results."
It's easy to concoct theories that explain Everything. The trick is
not to explain too much.
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