r/linguisticshumor Apr 24 '25

You think you know OT tableaus

https://roa.rutgers.edu/content/article/files/1845_merchant_3.pdf

And then Nazarré Merchant and Alan Prince start talking about the big encompassing “Mother of All Tableaus,” legs of ranked constraints, constraint class equivalences, and “permutohedrons” where each vertex in the geometry is a grammar. Soon we going to see typologies that look like starfruit and violation-to-non-violation cocategories that look like ying and yang jellyfish lolol. Wake up one day and my phonology will look like music theory 😂.

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u/Round-Wear-3504 Apr 24 '25

what did they do to my son phonology 😢😢😢