Maximal feature specification is feasible; minimal feature specification is not
Kyle Gorman, Charles Reiss
October 2023 

We defend three heresies: 1) Phonological rules are not minimally specified. Rather they are specified using the maximal set of features consistent with the data. 2) Children are not little scientists; acquiring a grammar is qualitatively different than developing a scientific theory. 3) There’s no such thing as assimilation.

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Published in:	GLOW 47
keywords:	phonology, minimum description length, information theory, complexity, features, feature theory, subset principle, acquisition, assimilation, uniqueness, icelandic, georgian, catalan, malayalam, phonology
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