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Optimality Theory
Author | : Rene Kager |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1999-06-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521589800 |
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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
Optimality Theory
Author | : Alan Prince,Paul Smolensky |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780470759394 |
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This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format. Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory. Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.
Learnability in Optimality Theory
Author | : Bruce Tesar,Paul Smolensky |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2000-05-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262264889 |
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Highlighting the close relationship between linguistic explanation and learnability, Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky examine the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for language learnability. Highlighting the close relationship between linguistic explanation and learnability, Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky examine the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for language learnability. They show how the core principles of OT lead to the learning principle of constraint demotion, the basis for a family of algorithms that infer constraint rankings from linguistic forms. Of primary concern to the authors are the ambiguity of the data received by the learner and the resulting interdependence of the core grammar and the structural analysis of overt linguistic forms. The authors argue that iterative approaches to interdependencies, inspired by work in statistical learning theory, can be successfully adapted to address the interdependencies of language learning. Both OT and Constraint Demotion play critical roles in their adaptation. The authors support their findings both formally and through simulations. They also illustrate how their approach could be extended to other language learning issues, including subset relations and the learning of phonological underlying forms.
Doing Optimality Theory
Author | : John J. McCarthy |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011-09-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781444358056 |
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Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are markedly different from other linguistic theories, this book presents the analytic techniques and new ways of thinking and theorizing that are required. Explains how to do analysis and research using Optimality Theory (OT) - a branch of phonology that has revolutionized the field since its conception in 1993 Offers practical, in-depth advice for students and researchers in the field, presented in an engaging way Features numerous examples, questions, and exercises throughout, all helping to illustrate the theory and summarize the core concepts of OT Written by John J. McCarthy, one of the theory’s leading proponents and an instrumental figure in the dissemination and use of OT today An ideal guide through the intricacies of linguistic analysis and research for beginning researchers, and, by example, one which will lead the way to future developments in the field.
Optimality Theory
Author | : Joost Dekkers (linguiste),Frank Reinoud Hugo van der Leeuw,Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198238444 |
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Optimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians.
Optimality Theory in Phonology
Author | : John J. McCarthy |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780470755525 |
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Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures in the field, including a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s never-before-published Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Compiles the most important readings about Optimality Theory in phonology from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Contains 33 excerpts spanning a range of topics in phonology and including many never-before-published papers. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Prince and Smolensky’s foundational 1993 manuscript Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Includes introductory notes and study/research questions for each chapter.
Bidirectional Optimality Theory
Author | : Anton Benz,Jason Mattausch |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-11-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027284525 |
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Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic approaches. Optimality Theory holds that linguistic output can be understood as the optimized products of ranked constraints. At the centre of BiOT is the insight that this optimisation has to take place both in production and interpretation, and that the production-interpretation cycle has to lead back to the original input. BiOT is now generally interpreted as a description of diachronically stable and cognitively optimal form–meaning pairs. It found applications beyond the semantics-pragmatics interface in language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonology, syntax, and typology. This book provides a state of the art overview of these developments. It collects nine chapters by leading scientists in the field.
A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
Author | : John J. McCarthy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 052179644X |
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Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.