Paul Tesar

Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky ( 2000 ) . Learnability in Optimality

This review is not only for people interested in learnability in OT, but for everybody who believes in OT’s claim of FACTORIAL TYPOLOGY, i.e. the prediction that all language types generated by a permutation of the rankings of the constraints are attestable human languages. Learnability considerations are capable of shooting holes in that claim. As the study of formal models of language acquisi...

Learnability in Optimality Theory ( short version ) Bruce Tesar & Paul

A central claim of Optimality Theory is that grammars may differ only in how conflicts among universal well-formedness constraints are resolved: a grammar is precisely a means of resolving such conflicts via a strict priority ranking of constraints. It is shown here how this theory of Universal Grammar yields a highly general Constraint Demotion principle for grammar learning. The resulting lea...

پل کلودل Paul Claudel

Albert Benveniste , Paul Caspi , Paul

In this paper, we present a theory of synchronous data-ow languages. Our theory is supported by both some heuristic analysis of applications and some theoretical investigation of the data-ow paradigm. Our model covers both behavioural and operational aspects, and allows both synchronous and asynchronous styles of implementation for synchronous programs. This model served as a basis to establish...

Paul Falkowski

team looked at satellite measures of sea surface temperatures for the wintering grounds of 24 humpback whale populations around the world. In all cases, the animals were opting for waters between 24 and 25oC. The whales in this study would have had to continue north of the Equator to find water this warm. Rasmussen believes that a high enough water temperature is crucial for them to breed. “It’...