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What OT is, and what it is not1

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de LacyPaul (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x+697.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2009

TOBIAS SCHEER
TOBIAS SCHEER*
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Université de Nice, CNRS 6039
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Author's address: Laboratoire Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL, UMR 6039), Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, CNRS; MSH de Nice, 98 Bd E. Herriot, 06200Nice, Francescheer@unice.fr
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 193 - 218
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I am indebted to two anonymous JL reviewers as well as to Paul de Lacy, whose comments have greatly helped to improve the article.

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