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Alan Prince (born 1946) is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory, currently the most influential theory about phonology. He received his Ph.D. from MIT.
Publications[]
See this page for links to papers
Books[]
- Prince, Alan, and Paul Smolensky. 2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative grammar. Blackwell: Malden, MA; Oxford, UK; Carlton,Aus.
Chapters in books[]
- Prince, Alan. 2006. The Pursuit of Theory. In Paul de Lacy, ed., Cambridge Handbook of Phonology.
- Prince, Alan. 2002. Arguing Optimality. In Coetzee, Andries, Angela Carpenter and Paul de Lacy (eds). Papers in Optimality Theory II. GLSA, UMass. Amherst. ROA-536.
- Prince, Alan. 2002. Anything Goes. In A New Century of Phonology and Phonological Theory, ed. T. Honma, M. Okazaki, T. Tabata, & S. Tanaka. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. 66-90. ROA-536. 20pp. 216K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan and Paul Smolensky. Optimality Theory in Phonology. Article for Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 17pp. 200Kb/pdf.
- McCarthy, John and Alan Prince. 1997/99. Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology. ROA-216. 65pp. In The Morphology- Prosody Interface, (1999) eds. Harry van der Hulst, René Kager, and Wim Zonneveld. pp. 218-309, Cambridge University Press.
Papers[]
- Prince, Alan. 2005. Harmony at Base Omega: Utility Functions for OT. 8pp. ROA-798.
- Brasoveanu, Adrian, and Alan Prince. 2005. Ranking & Necessity. Part I. 44pp. ROA-794.
- Tesar, Bruce, and Alan Prince. 2003. Using phonotactics to learn phonological alternations. Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Vol. II: The Panels. ROA-620.
- Tesar, Bruce, and John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Nazarre Merchant, Koichi Nishitani, and Alan Prince. 2003. Surgery in language learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 477-490. ROA-619.
- Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 2002. Fundamental Properties of Harmonic Bounding. RuCCS-TR-71. Updated as ROA-785.
- Prince, Alan. 2002. Entailed Ranking Arguments. ROA-500. 117pp. 800K/pdf
- Prince, Alan. 2000. Comparative Tableaux. Superseded by "Arguing Optimality," see above.
- Samek-Lodovici, Vieri and Alan Prince. 1999. Optima. ROA-363. 58pp. 250K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan and Bruce Tesar. 1999. Learning Phonotactic Distributions.ROA-353. 32pp. 224K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan. 1998. Two Lectures on Optimality Theory. Talks given at the 1998 Phonology Forum, Kobe. 99K/pdf.
rince, Alan and Paul Smolensky. 1997. Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar. Science 275, 1604-1610. 580K/pdf.
- Prince, Alan 1997. Elsewhere and Otherwise. Glot International 2:1, 23-24. ROA-217. 7pp.
- Prince, Alan & John McCarthy. 1996. Prosodic Morphology 1986. RuCCS-TR-32. Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.100pp. PDF/560K.
- Prince, Alan. 1996. Gradient Ascent in a Linear Inhibitory Network. RuCCS-TR-31, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, 13pp. PDF/107K.
- Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. 1996. The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source. Communication and Cognition, 29, 307-361.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1995. Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity. ROA-60. 137pp.
In Jill Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk, Laura Walsh eds. UMOP-18: Papers in Optimality Theory.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1994. The Emergence of the Unmarked. ROA-13. 47pp.
In Mercè Gonzàlez, ed., NELS 24: Proceedings of [the 1993 meeting of] the Northeastern Linguistic Society, Vol. 2, 333-379. GLSA: Amherst, MA.
- Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. 1993. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. RuCCS-TR-2. ROA-537. 262pp.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1993a. Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction. RuCCS-TR-3. ROA-482. 196pp.
- McCarthy, John & Alan Prince. 1993b. Generalized Alignment. ROA-7. 69pp.
In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, eds,Yearbook of Morphology 1993, 79-153. Kluwer: Boston.
- Prince, Alan. 1993. In defense of the number i : Anatomy of a linear dynamical model of linguistic generalizations.. RuCCS TR-1. 100pp. PDF/1M.
- Prince, Alan. 1990. Quantitative Consequences of Rhythmic Organization. 34pp., 310Kb/pdf.
In CSL 26-II: Papers from the Parasession on the Syllable in Phonetics and Phonology, ed. Karen Deaton, Manuela Noske, and Michael Ziolkowski, 355-398. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.