Optimality Theory in Linguistics

What Is Optimality Theory?

Optimality Theory is a general model of how grammars are structured. This article surveys the motivations for Optimality Theory, its core principles, and the basics of analysis. It also addresses some frequently asked questions about this theory and offers suggestions for further reading.

Optimality Of Monetary And Fiscal Policies In Iran: An Application Of The Stochastic Optimal Control Theory

A Robbins-Monro type learning algorithm for an entropy maximizing version of stochastic Optimality Theory

The object of the present work is the analysis of the convergence behaviour of a learning algorithm for grammars belonging to a special version – the maximum entropy version – of stochastic Optimality Theory. Stochastic Optimality Theory is like its deterministic predecessor, namely Optimality Theory as introduced by Prince and Smolensky, in that both are theories of universal grammar in the se...

Evaluation , Implementation , and Extension of Primitive Optimality Theory

of the Thesis Evaluation, Implementation, and Extension of Primitive Optimality Theory by Daniel Matthew Albro Master of Arts in Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles, 1997 Professor Edward P. Stabler, Chair Eisner's (1997a) Primitive Optimality Theory is a simple formal model of a subset of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The work presented here implements this model...

The Adaptation of English Initial Clusters by Persian Learners

This study presents an overview of the different strategies that Persian learners of English employ to deal with initial clusters. While vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to Persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. In this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. The first o...