Chapter 1 Freedom of Analysis?

Blaho, Sylvia; Bye, Patrik; Krämer, Martin

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“…where lexical entries may or even have to be specific in one way or another, cf. Blaho et al 2007). It is not a functionalist theory (building functionalist content into constraints is a private decision made by the analyst).…”

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“…Another view is expressed in a small but growing body of literature to which Marc van Oostendorp has contributed a good deal (e.g. Oostendorp 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006), and which is condensed in Blaho, Bye & Krämer (2007). This volume challenges the concept of Freedom of Analysis because you ought not to be free to do what you want with representations.…”

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What OT is, and what it is not

Scheer

2009

J. Ling.

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What OT is, and what it is not

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2009

J. Ling.

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“…To illustrate, (5) represents the candidate (a, b, ρ a,b ) whose underlying string a is /bnIk/, whose surface string b is [blIk], whose correspondence relation ρ a,b maps underlying to surface segments respecting their position in the strings. The representational assumption (4) is consistent with additional restrictions on the candidate set (Blaho et al 2007). This flexibility will be exploited in the paper, which will explore the implications of various restrictions on the correspondence relations which can figure in the candidate set.…”

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“…The representational assumption (4) is consistent with additional restrictions on the candidate set (Blaho, Bye & Krämer 2007). This flexibility will be exploited in this paper, which will explore the implications of various restrictions on the correspondence relations that can figure in the candidate set.…”

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Idempotency in Optimality Theory

Magri

2017

J. Ling.

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Anidempotentphonological grammar maps phonotactically licit forms faithfully to themselves. This paper establishes tight sufficient conditions for idempotency in (classical) Optimality Theory. Building on Tesar (2013), these conditions are derived in two steps. First, idempotency is shown to follow from a general formal condition on the faithfulness constraints. Second, this condition is shown to hold for a variety of faithfulness constraints which naturally arise within McCarthy & Prince’s (1995) Correspondence Theory of faithfulness. This formal analysis provides an exhaustive toolkit for modelingchain shifts, which have proven recalcitrant to a constraint-based treatment.

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“…Suggestions for further reading. Blaho, Bye, and Krämer (forthcoming) is an anthology of work on G en and freedom of analysis.…”

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What Is Optimality Theory?¹

McCarthy

2007

Language and Linguist. Compass

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In this article we show how Optimality Theory yields a highly general Constraint Demotion principle for grammar learning. The resulting learning procedure specifically exploits the grammatical structure of Optimality Theory, independent of the content of substantive constraints defining any given grammatical module. We decompose the learning problem and present formal results for a central subproblem, deducing the constraint ranking particular to a target language, given structural descriptions of positive examples. The structure imposed on the space of possible grammars by Optimality Theory allows efficient convergence to a correct grammar. We discuss implications for learning from overt data only, as well as other learning issues. We argue that Optimality Theory promotes confluence of the demands of more effective learnability and deeper linguistic explanation.Keywords: Optimality Theory, learning, acquisition, computational linguistics How exactly does a theory of grammar bear on questions of learnability? Restrictions on what counts as a possible human language can restrict the learner's search space. But this is a coarse observation: alone it says nothing about how data may be brought to bear on the problem, and further, the number of possible languages predicted by most linguistic theories is extremely large. 1It would clearly be a desirable result if the nature of the restrictions imposed by a theory of grammar could contribute further to language learnability.The central claim of this article is that the character of the restrictions imposed by Optimality Theory Smolensky 1991, 1993) have demonstrable and significant consequences for central questions of learnability. Optimality Theory explains linguistic phenomena through the complex interaction of violable constraints. The main results of this article demonstrate that those constraint interactions are nevertheless restricted in a way that permits the correct grammar to be inferred from grammatical structural descriptions. These results are theorems, based on a formalWe are greatly indebted to Alan Prince, whose challenges, insights, and suggestions have improved nearly every

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Chapter 1 Freedom of Analysis?

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