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Hualde, Jose Ignacio Morales-Front, Alfonso 2011-05-07T13:11:19Z 2011-05-07T13:11:19Z 10000-01-01 1994 "The goal of this dissertation is to argue for a Constraint-based Approach to phonology. The term ""constraint-based"" is used in opposition to the term ""rule-based."" In a rule-based approach, rules are at the core and constraints are filters that limit the overgeneration inherent to rules. In a constraint-based approach, the role of rules is minimum and it is compliance with well-formedness constraints that drives phonology." In the first part, after a contrastive presentation of the R-bA and the C-bA, I outline the problems that the R-bA faces when dealing with the interaction of rules and constraints, language change and variation, UG, and cognitive plausibility. The centrality of the issues and the difficulties experienced to provide solutions, reveal the inadequacy of the most basic assumptions of the R-bA. With respect to these problems, the C-bA has a clear advantage. After concluding in chapter I that the C-bA is well motivated, I offer in chapter II a contrastive review of the three major theoretical options within the C-bA. Namely, The Theory of Constraints and Repairs Strategies (TCRS), Declarative Phonology (DP) and Optimality Theory (OT). For these three theories I consider, what a constraint is, what the role of rules is, how constraints interact and how would each theory account for the weak points of the R-bA. My conclusion is that OT is at this point 'the optimal theory'. Chapter III is devoted to present additional assumptions within OT. In the second part of the dissertation I offer three case studies that correspond to three major divisions of Spanish phonology. I consider in chapter IV the sub-segmental level and propose an optimality-theoretic treatment of underspecification. Following the distribution of the prosodic hierarchy I provide in chapter V an optimality account for syllabification and stress assignment. In these analyses I show that for Spanish phonology, a C-bA within the framework of OT results in a simpler, more intuitive and explanatory account of the data. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:11:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9512491.pdf: 8952632 bytes, checksum: 68e0bfdd60636d94376783ef41031d8b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:51:25Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:23:35-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9512491 (UMI)AAI9512491 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21530 eng Copyright 1994 Morales-Front, Alfonso Language, Linguistics A constraint based approach to Spanish phonology text Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Spanish University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.