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Optimality Theory Was a HoaxPrince and Smolensky finally come clean

Published: Aug. 9, 2013, 12:08 p.m.

Optimality Theory Was a Hoax\u2014Prince and Smolensky finally come clean; by SpecGram Wire Services; From Volume CLXVI Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, March 2013 \u2014 At a tearful news conference during the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Allen Prince confessed that Optimality Theory was a hoax. \u201cI just can\u2019t live with the lies any longer,\u201d he said. (Read by Brianne Hughes.)