John J. McCarthy

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John J. McCarthy's research deals with various topics in phonology, prosodic morphology, and Optimality Theory. He is the author of A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory (Cambridge, 2002) and Hidden Generalizations: Phonological Opacity in Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2007), and he edited Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader (Blackwell, 2004). His textbook Doing Optimality Theory will be published by Blackwell in 2008. His articles have appeared in the journals Phonology, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language, and Linguistic Inquiry. He has taught courses on Optimality Theory at two Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes (Cornell 1997 and MIT 2005). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.