Optimality Theory and Hierarchy Construction

OT SIMPLE - a construction-kit approach to Optimality Theory implementation

This paper details a simple approach to the implementation of Optimality Theory (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993) on a computer, in part reusing standard system software. In a nutshell, OT’s GENerating source is implemented as a BinProlog program interpreting a context-free specification of a GEN structural grammar according to a user-supplied input form. The resulting set of textually flattened ...

Lenition and Optimality Theory

Optimality Theory

In this chapter, we explore the implications of Optimality Theory (OT) for speech-language pathology.. But at the time of writing, the most accessible readings in OT for the speech-language pathologist are to be found in Bernhardt, Gilbert, and Ingram (1996). The first part of the chapter outlines major aspects of OT, and the second part discusses application of this theory to phonological inte...

Theorie Des Lexikons Arbeiten Des Sonderforschungsbereichs 282 Ot Simple { a Construction-kit Approach to Optimality Theory Implementation Ot Simple { a Construction-kit Approach to Optimality Theory Implementation

This paper details a simple approach to the implementation of Optimality Theory (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993) on a computer, in part reusing standard system software. In a nutshell, OT's GENerating source is implemented as a BinProlog program interpreting a context-free speci cation of a GEN structural grammar according to a user-supplied input form. The resulting set of textually attened can...

Optimality Theory

René Kager’s textbook is one of the first to cover Optimality Theory (OT), a declarative grammar framework that swiftly took over phonology after it was introduced by Prince, Smolensky, and McCarthy in 1993. OT reclaims traditional grammar’s ability to express surface generalizations (“syllables have onsets,” “no nasal+voiceless obstruent clusters”). Empirically, some surface generalizations ar...