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ABSTRACT:
My goal is to argue the merits of a type of work that is somewhat rare in linguistics, and to illustrate this kind of work in three domains: phonological inventories and conjunctive constraint interaction, non-participating segments in vowel harmony, and the general nature of phonological categories like 'possible word of language L'.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Paul Smolensky, "On Theoretical Facts and Empirical Abstractions" (June 20, 2006). Linguistics Research Center. Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. Paper 13.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/lrc/prince/13