I-IV -- Contents -- Constraints and Preferences: Introduction -- Parameters and scales in syllable markedness: the right edge of the word in Malayalam -- Constraints and processes in phonological perception -- Phonotactic constraints are preferences -- Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language change -- Preferences as defaults in computational phonology -- Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English, and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction -- Hidden identity, or the double life of segments -- Working with licensing constraints -- Rules vs. constraints in modeling phonological change: the case of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico -- Are optimality theoretical "constraints" the same as natural linguistic "preferences"? -- Abstractness in phonology: the case of virtual geminates -- Constraints, preferences, and context-sensitivity in morphology -- Old English fricatives: lenition and licensing -- Index -- 403-404