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Nazarré Merchant and Alan Prince (2023). The Mother of All Tableaux: Order, Equivalence, and Geometry in the Large-scale Structure of Optimality Theory (Advances in Optimality Theory series). Sheffield: Equinox. Distributed by University of Toronto Press. xii+356 pages.

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Nazarré Merchant and Alan Prince (2023). The Mother of All Tableaux: Order, Equivalence, and Geometry in the Large-scale Structure of Optimality Theory (Advances in Optimality Theory series). Sheffield: Equinox. Distributed by University of Toronto Press. xii+356 pages.

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Phonology , Volume 42 , 2025 , e10
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