Some notes on the formal properties of bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 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.
| Author details: | Gerhard Jäger |
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| ISSN: | 0925-8531 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2002 |
| Publication year: | 2002 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
| Source: | Journal of logic, language and information : official journal of the European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information. - ISSN 0925-8531. - 11 (2002), 4, S. 427 - 451 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
