The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon

该项目的中心分析理论任务是将基于约束的语音词汇核心-外围模型整合到优选论中。优选论研究的是语音约束之间的相互作用，它建立在约束是有等级的和可违反的基础上。对日语的探索性研究表明，在优选论中发展词汇的核心-外围模型不仅可以大大提高对词汇组织及其原理的理解，而且反过来也对优选论本身做出了贡献，并导致了许多新的经验和理论问题。 这些问题将通过对特定语言的语音词汇进行详细的实证分析（以锐化和测试理论的细节）和通过跨语言调查（以确保预测的拓扑有效性）来调查。该项目的结果将在研究文章和会议论文中报告，并在项目结束时将主要的经验发现和理论结论合并和总结在一本专著中。

The central analytic-theoretical task of the project is to integrate the constraint-based core-periphery model of the phonological lexicon into Optimality Theory (OT). Optimality Theory deals with the interaction of phonological constraints with each other and is built on the idea that constraints are ranked and violable. Exploratory work on Japanese indicates that developing the core-periphery model of the lexicon within OT not only leads to a much improved understanding of lexical organization and of the principles that give rise to it, but in turn also makes a contribution to Optimality Theory itself, and leads to many new empirical and theoretical issues. These issues will be investigated through detailed empirical analyses of the phonological lexica of particular languages (in order to sharpen and test the details of the theory) and through cross-language surveys (in order to secure the topological validity of the predictions). The results of the project will be reported in research articles and conference papers as they become available; and the main empirical findings and theoretical conclusions will be consolidated and summarized In a monograph at the end of the project.