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Some Notes on the Formal Properties of Bidirectional Optimality Theory
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The conditions under which bidirectional optimization is a well-defined notion are investigated, and aceptually simpler reformulation of Blutner's definition is given.Abstract:
In this paper, we discuss some formal properties of the model of bidirectional Optimality Theory that was developed in Blutner (2000). We investigate the conditions under which bidirectional optimization is a well-defined notion, and we give a conceptually simpler reformulation of Blutner's definition. In the second part of the paper, we show that bidirectional optimization can be modeled by means of finite state techniques. There we rely heavily on the related work of Frank and Satta (1998) about unidirectional optimization.read more
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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
Alan Prince,Paul Smolensky +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Berber and Elmedlaoui present a theory for the construction of grammars in Optimality Theory, which is based on a core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber.
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Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution
TL;DR: It is argued that presuppositional expressions should not be seen as referring expressions, nor is presupposition to be explicated in terms of some non-standard logic, while the theory is elaborated in the framework of discourse representation theory.
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Evidence Against the Context-Freeness of Natural Language
TL;DR: In searching for universal constraints on the class of natural languages, linguists have investigated a number of formal properties, including that of context-freeness, which is interpreted strongly and weakly both as a way of characterizing structure sets and even weakly for characterizing string sets.