Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on
neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one …

When a medial consonant cluster is simplified by deletion or place assimilation, the first
consonant is affected, but never the second one:/patka/becomes [paka] and …

This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing
that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syntactic expression of …

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite
State Optimality Theory A dissertation subm Page 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles …

This thesis presents a phonological theory of assimilation as feature spreading. The main
contribution is the idea that association lines between a feature and a root node are of …

Noisy Harmonic Grammar (NHG) is a framework for stochastic grammars that uses the GEN-
cum-EVAL system originated in Optimality Theory. As a form of Harmonic Grammar, NHG …

抄録 最適性理論における音韻パターンの説明は, 1 つの階層に序列化された出力制約群を用いて
なされる.「制約」 に関する理論なのだから当然であり, 実際上も 「操作」 の理論としてはほとんど …

This paper explores the consequences of Harmonic Serialism (HS), a derivational variant of
OT, for local and global phonological variation. Variation is local when each locus within a …

The main objective of this dissertation is to give a formal account of the typology of tonal
reassociation phenomena, where tone is realized on tonebearing units that are different …

Understanding a linguistic theory within OT requires an exact characterization of the ranking
conditions necessitated by data. These conditions determine the formal shape of the …