Optimality Theory focuses more on competing constraints than on conventions, and it considers that the optimal form is the one that incurs the least egregious contraventions of those constraints.
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On the end table next to my sofa is a small floral frame with a postcard of the above painting of Mystic Farm, my beloved best friend's beloved
English orthographic morphology is rich and complex, and it continues to reveal new aspects of its structure and history the longer you study it.
I've got a couple other posts in the hopper right now in varying stages of draftsmanship, but I wanted to announce the 2025 LEX Calendar in this space. It's available at a discount through the end of October. For the
It is a mistake to think that graphemes only spell phonemes, and that when they don't, it's weird or aberrant. It's not. It's totally normal.