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Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

Conlangery Podcast

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The Power of Optimized Linguistics

optimality theory shouldn't be reinventing the wheel. It should build on some of those observations in that tradition that we've always had. And what I used to say was a good constraint is something that can be found to be violated in some language and not be violated in other languages. That doesn't make them good constraints.

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