1. Overview Output-output correspondence (OOC) constraints, constraints which demand correspondence between independently occurring surface forms, have recently been added to the set of constraint types invoked in much OT work. In this paper we examine some of the better-known arguments originally adduced in support of OOC constraints, and argue that adoption of such a powerful mechanism is not...

The paper deals with combinatorial and stochastic structures of cubical token systems. A cubical token system is an instance of a token system, which in turn is an instance of a transition system. It is shown that some basic results of combinatorial and stochastic parts of media theory hold almost in identical form for cubical token systems, although some underlying concepts are quite different...

This paper examines the relationship between knowing how to G and the ability to G, which is typically presented in one of the following ways: (a) knowing how to G entails the ability to G; (b) knowing how to G does not entail the ability to G. In an attempt to reconcile these two putatively opposing positions, I distinguish between type and token actions. It is my contention that S can know ho...

By taking out letters from a word we get a subword. Both continuous sub-words (also called factors or simply subwords) and scattered subwords were extensively studied. In [4] the authors introduced Parikh matrices, structures that contain more information about the words than Parikh vectors, which tell us only the number of di $ffere\tau 1T$ letters building the word. $I_{l1}[5]$ the notion of ...

From a generic set of uncertain pieces of information about the normal course of things and a temporal sequence of reported facts, an intelligent artifact should be able to identify causally related events and distinguish between factors that facilitate or justify the occurrence of events from other facts. In this paper, we propose a model for causality and facilitation ascriptions when the bac...

Certain recurrent consonant-vowel co-occurrence frequency biases have often been attributed to the biomechanics of the mandible. This paper takes issue with this claim by pointing to some methodological flaws in the literature supporting it. CV co-occurrence data on Spanish and Portuguese are brought to bear on such neglected issues as sampling, effect size, and count type. It is shown that sma...

A key challenge in vocabulary acquisition is learning which of the many possible meanings is appropriate for a word. The word generalization problem refers to how children associate a word such as dog with a meaning at the appropriate category level in a taxonomy of objects, such as Dalmatians, dogs, or animals. We present the first computational study of word generalization integrated within a...

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...