A principle from this subfield is notably ignored by the Dorig language of Vanuatu (“VAN-oo-AH-too”) in words like rkpʷa (“ruk-pwuh”). The “ba argument” critiques a framework [emphasize] first created in this subfield and expanded by John McCarthy’s candidate chains theory. Haudricourt’s (“oh-dree-COOR’s”) “panchronic” program applies this subfield historically. The QPAS tests this subfield’s namesake “awareness.” A theory [emphasize] first used in this subfield struggles to explain its namesake “opacity,” which results from “feeding” and “bleeding” orders. The layers “INPUT,” “GEN,” and “EVAL” make up that theory [emphasize] first used in this subfield, which was created by Prince and Smolensky. This was the [emphasize] first subfield to use the ranked constraints of Optimality Theory to explain phenomena like the sonority hierarchy and phonemes. For 10 points, name this subfield that studies how languages organize sound patterns. ■END■
ANSWER: phonology [accept phonotactics; accept phonological opacity or phonological awareness; accept morphophonology; prompt on linguistics; prompt on Optimality Theory until read by asking “from what subfield of linguistics did OT originate?”; reject “phonetics” or “phonics” or “morphology”] (Dorig ignores the sonority hierarchy. The “ba argument” suggests that all lexical inputs would output the optimal syllable “ba” under OT.)
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