The Initial and Final States: Theoretical Implications and Experimental Explorations of Richness of the Base
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چکیده
In this chapter we present the initial stages of work that attempts to assess the ‘psychological reality’ of one of the more subtle grammatical principles of Optimality Theory (‘OT’; Prince and Smolensky 1993), Richness of the Base. Within the OT competence theory, we develop several of this principle’s empirical predictions concerning the grammar’s final state (Section 1) and initial state (Section 2). We also formulate linking hypotheses which allow these predictions concerning competence to yield predictions addressing performance. We then report and discuss the results of experimental work testing these performance predictions with respect to linguistic processing in infants (Section 3) and adults (Section 4) .
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