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Publication details [#26460]

Tesar, Bruce and Paul Smolensky. 2000. Learnability in optimality theory. MIT Press. VIII+140 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

constraints on variability | language acquisition | phonology2

Annotation

This book explores the implications of Optimality Theory for language acquisition and learnability. It is argued that OT provides sufficient grammatical framework structure to allow grammatically informed learning algorithms to be formally defined.

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Blutner, Reinhard. 2002. Review of $Learnability in optimality theory.

Pennington, Martha. 2000. Review of $Learnability in optimality theory.