Dominance effects as transderivational anti-faithfulness

Dominance effects as trans- derivational anti-faithfulness*

This paper presents a theory of morphophonology based on a development in the theory of faithfulness in Optimality Theory. A new constraint type, antifaithfulness, is proposed that evaluates a pair of related words and requires an alternation in the shared stem. This constraint type is motivated initially by a set of problems, e.g. morphological deletions, segmental exchanges and non-structure ...

Three kinds of transderivational constraint ∗

The status of transderivational constraints (TDCs) in syntactic theory has always been controversial. TDCs – informally definable as any that make syntactic well-formedness dependent upon sets of sentences – were proposed throughout the 1970s in various forms.1 Most were quickly discovered to be factually or theoretically unsound. But this did not lead to a rejection of transderivational thinki...

Variation within Optimality Theory

In Optimality Theory, an important tool for accounting for morpho-phonological processes is output-output correspondence. A development of this approach is Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness (TAF), constituting a reversal of faithfulness. This article will explore the nature of TAF, in order to test this approach as an extension of Optimality Theory. The example of morphologically triggered ac...

On the incompatibility of faithfulness and monotone DAG faithfulness

Cheng, Greiner, Kelly, Bell and Liu [Artificial Intelligence 137 (2002) 43–90] describe an algorithm for learning Bayesian networks that—in a domain consisting of n variables—identifies the optimal solution using O(n4) calls to a mutual-information oracle. This result relies on (1) the standard assumption that the generative distribution is Markov and faithful to some directed acyclic graph (DA...

Prosodic Faithfulness in Cupeno