Gradient constraints in finite state OT: The unidirectional and the bidirectional case

Gerhard Jäger · Akademie Verlag eBooks · 2002

Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) has offered a novel unifying perspective on different branches of linguistic research. It was originally conceived as a form of synchronic grammatical description in the tradition of generative grammar, and the first domain of application was phonology. In the meantime optimality theoretic concepts

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