Recent generative phonology is witnessing a debate between several proposals concerning the solution of the opacity problem. "Opacity" refers to generalizations that are not superficially detectable -which are explained in derivational phonology by applying ordered application of rules. In Optimality Theory, the opacity issue attracts special interest, since this theory abandons rules altogether, such as intermediate representations and derivational stages between input and output. As
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