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On that broad level, though, I admire Reynolds's commitment to nailing down exactly what variation IS in a way that is more satisfying than what phonologists have traditionally gone forward with, and taking the complications as opportunity rather than crisis. Indeed, when more than one form of a word is optimal, is that because speakers are participating in multiple grammars, or because the constraints that evidently leave us with more than one form are unrankable, the last-form-but-one uneliminatable?
Reynolds answers the question deftly by conceding the existence of multiple grammars in the case of consistent dialectal variation, be it stable or new-forming, and in the case of variations that are not consistent intra-speech community (or intra-speaker), he introduces the concept of the "floating constraint"--alongside but unranked relative to a language's normal constraint chain, and then when you can tie it down to a specific position with a specific surface form, well, there's your difference between one dialect and another, right there! So the more you fill out the constraint ranking of a language, the more you can say "take "standard" English, move this over here and you've got Brummie or Nuyorican; move these twelve or two hundred like this and you've got Korean!" So economical, so pleasing.
I have to admit I was hoping he would conclude that sociological causes of variation could be explained by OT, resulting in constraints like *COMPLEXCODA-CASUAL to get alternation between, like, "thinking" and "thinkin'" (although I'm aware that the latter is a vestigial progressive suffix /-end/) or DEL-NUCLEUS[-stress]-INGROUP to explain my uncle Walter's "hos khnur khop?", or ridiculous excesses like DOUBLE-C[perf] to get that yakuza-movie "-yagarrrrrre!", but the framework can only be made to do what the framework can do. Congratulations, Dr. Reynolds! ( )