On the problem of Infinity and Gen-Eval in Optimality Theory
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In this squib, I present an alternative view of the Gen and Eval mechanisms that lie at the heart of Optimality Theory (“OT”) (see Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993). As originally conceived, Gen is a pattern generator which creates an infinite set of possible phonological realizations of a lexical input string (“candidates”). Eval then evaluates the entire (infinite) set to determine which candidate is optimal with respect to a finite set of phonological constraints. The claim of OT is that these constraints are given in Universal Grammar (“UG”) and that only the ordering of the constraints differs from language to language.
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