Optimality Theory is a general model of how grammars are structured. This article surveys
the motivations for Optimality Theory, its core principles, and the basics of analysis. It also …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

This book documents the first serious attempt to construct automatically and use
nonsemantic computational structures for text summarization. Until now, most discourse …

This dissertation identifies a strong computational property of phonological and
morphological processes with local triggers. It is shown that the input-output mapping that …

This chapter studies the nature of the typology of phonological markedness constraints and
the nature of the typology of the transformation from underlying to surface forms from a …

This book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems. It offers specific
proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements; what …

This article shows that specific properties of long-distance phonotactic patterns derived from
consonantal harmony patterns (Hansson 2001, Rose and Walker 2004) follow from a …

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax,
computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and …

Computational phonology studies sound patterns in the world's languages from a
computational perspective. This article shows that the similarities between different …

This article presents a novel OT analysis of ternary rhythm, using the restrictive format of
McCarthy (2003)'s categorical alignment constraints, which we will refer to as 'non …