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Positional faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar / Aaron Kaplan. // Journal of Linguistics Vol. 55- Issue 1/2019
2019.
p.123-159.

In Tamil, coronals are licensed in onsets and initial syllables, exemplifying what Jesney (2011b) calls Licensing in Multiple Contexts (LMC). Jesney shows that while only positional faithfulness produces LMC in Optimality Theory, positional licensing provides a competing analysis of LMC in Harmonic Grammar (HG). This suggests that positional faithfulness may not be necessary in HG. We argue, though, that positional faithfulness remains essential. First, other facts in Tamil are incompatible with the positional licensing approach to LMC, rendering the positional faithfulness alternative the only viable analysis. Second, only with positional faithfulness can certain typological generalizations concerning assimilation between consonants be captured.
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Positional faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar / Miranda Mccarvel. // Journal of Linguistics Vol. 55, Issue 1
2019.
p.123-159.

In Tamil, coronals are licensed in onsets and initial syllables, exemplifying what Jesney (2011b) calls Licensing in Multiple Contexts (LMC). Jesney shows that while only positional faithfulness produces LMC in Optimality Theory, positional licensing provides a competing analysis of LMC in Harmonic Grammar (HG). This suggests that positional faithfulness may not be necessary in HG. We argue, though, that positional faithfulness remains essential. First, other facts in Tamil are incompatible with the positional licensing approach to LMC, rendering the positional faithfulness alternative the only viable analysis. Second, only with positional faithfulness can certain typological generalizations concerning assimilation between consonants be captured.
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从汉语音系看优选论的修订 = Revisit optimality theory:Perspective of Chinese phonology. / Wee Lian-Hee. // Contemporary linnguistics. 2014, Vol. 16, No.3.
2014.
p. 346-357.

As a generative theory of phonology,Optimality Theory provides an architecture of abstract grammar where all possibilities corresponding to an input form are evaluated by a universal set of constraints that have a language-specific ranking hierarchy so that an optimal output would be identified as the phonetic manifestation of some underlying phonological form.Under this conception,the notion grammaticality is no longer one of perfect accordance to rules of a given language,but rather of maximal parsimony with the ranked hierarchy of universal constraints.In principle,OT encompasses all languages so that,specific to Chinese,it would be merely a matter of finding the right constraint ranking.However,while OT has prompted phonologists to study Chinese from this perspective,the intricate patterns in Chinese can in turn refine the architecture of OT.This paper illustrates these Chinese contributions using examples drawn from(1) the structural sensitivity of tone sandhi,(2) the historical shift from voicing contrasts in prevocalic plosives to tonal register contrasts and(3) loanword phonology.
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借词音系学与汉语借词研究 = Loanword phonology:A Chinese perspective. / Hsieh Feng-fan. // Contemporary linnguistics. 2014, Vol. 16, No.3.
2014.
p. 358-371.

The goals of this paper are two-fold.First,this paper introduces competing approaches to loanword phonology.Second,it provides a survey of instances of segmental and suprasegmental adaptation in Sinitic and minority languages in China and subsequently discusses the theoretical consequences thereof.Loanword adaptation shows that non-distinctive,redundant features must be involved in linguistic computation.More remarkably,enhancement effects are attested in the loanword adaptation patterns of the languages under discussion,lending further support to the role of perceptual saliency in phonology.On the odier hand,some unique phenomena,such as "tone deaf’ and "lexical conservatism" only found in these languages,pose non-trivial challenges to existing theories of loanword adaptation.In sum,it is shown in this paper that East Asian languages,albeit(morpho-)phonologically impoverished,do present a rich empirical ground for examining many important questions in phonological theory.
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和谐串行理论:一种带推导的优选论 = TA Survey of Harmonic Serialism / 马秋武；MA Qiuwu. // Contemporary linnguistics. 2016, Vol. 18, No.3.
2016.
401-415 p.

Harmonic Serialism(HS) is a derivational Optimality Theory advanced in recent years. Following the classic generative phonology,this theory assumes that the phonological mapping is indirect,the surface forms are derived after a series of intermediate steps,and the number of sound changes in each step is strictly limited. But the difference is that it is still an OT theory,with an assumption that a grammar is one of the rankings of a set of universal constraints. Unlike parallelist OT(P-OT),HS strictly observes the principle of gradualness when its Gen generates the candidate set,and thus,the phonological mappings from underlying form to surface form fully reflect the process of harmonic improvement of the candidate. As a result,the winner that the grammar finally selects is a local optimum rather than the global one. Using the comparative method,the present paper first introduces and explains the basic theoretical principles and framework of HS,and illustrates its analytic method with some examples. Then,by comparing with other related theory,the paper points out the characteristics and advantages as well as the existing problems for HS,then demonstrates both theoretical and empirical consequences that HS may bring about,and finally concludes with a brief summary of the remaining problems and challenges that this theory will be faced with