Deriving an Implicational Universal in a Constrained OT Grammar
Charles Reiss · Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 1996
This paper contains three major sections In section 1, I describe an apparent typological universal concerning the scope of assimilation processes In section 2, I demonstrate that the universal can be derived from the nature of a relatively simple OT grammar In section 3, I discuss the problem of under and overgeneration in OT, including the counterfeeding problem, and constraints on the set of OT constraints Section 4 contains a brief conclusion