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Speaking of the Optimal List: I forgot to cross-post here one of the very first non-ROA announcements that came through when I decided to turn the list into an announcement-only venue. It’s an announcement for a new book series, Advances in Optimality Theory, edited by Ellen Woolford and Armin Mester. Two books have so far been advertised to appear in the series, both phonology-related: Hidden Generalizations: Phonological Opacity in Optimality Theory (by John J. McCarthy, May 2006) and Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition and Disorders (ed. by Daniel A. Dinnsen & Judith A. Gierut, December 2006).

Tonio Green has just posted a complete draft of his interesting book Phonology Limited on the Rutgers Optimality Archive. For those of you who do not regularly visit the Archive or subscribe to the Optimal List — the latter having become pretty much just an announcement list for new postings on the Archive — the abstract for the book is copied below.

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I just became aware of Indistinguishable from Jesse, the blog of a Computer Science & Engineering grad student here at UCSD. One of Jesse’s many categories is about linguistics (”Indistinguishable from English“), and one of his posts in this category from earlier this year was about expletive infixation. Jesse asks:

Poll (pick one): Un-fucking-believable or Unbe-fucking-lievable?

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