This book presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides fresh perspectives in an accessible way for students and researchers.

Bruce Tesar is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

1. Characterizing surface orientedness in phonology; 2. Output-driven maps; 3. Output-driven maps in optimality theory; 4. Analysis of constraint behavior; 5. Learning phonotactics; 6. Learning with paradigmatic information; 7. Exploiting output-drivenness in learning; 8. Paradigmatic subsets; 9. Linguistic theory and language learnability.