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These resources engage the student to achieve a level of economic and civic knowledge and understanding required to communicate and operate effectively in today's community

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Change, Chance, and Optimality frequency-domain analysis These resources engage the studentThis book is about how languages change. It is also a devastating critique of a widespread linguistic orthodoxy. April McMahon argues that to provide a convincing explanation of linguistic change the roles of history and contingency must be accommodated in linguistic theory. She also shows that theoretical work in related disciplines can be used to assess the value of such theories. Optimality Theory, or OT as it is usually called, dominates