Basic textbooks and Overviews
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Archangeli, D. & Langendoen, D. T. (eds) (1997), Optimality Theory
– an Overview. Blackwell, Oxford.
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P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky (eds.) (1998),
Optimality and Competition in Syntax. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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Kager, R. (1999), Optimality theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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Legendre, G., Vikner, S. & Grimshaw, J. (to appear), Optimality-Theoretic
Syntax. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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Dekkers, J., van der Leeuw, F. & van der Weijer, J. (eds) (2001), Optimality
Theory: Phonology, Syntax and Aquisition. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Articles and Monographs (articles
marked with are posted to the online
reader)
General/Foundation
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Antilla, A. & Cho, Y.-m. (1998), ‘Variation and change in optimality
theory’, Lingua 104, 31-56.
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Haspelmath; M., 'Optimality and Diachronic Adaptation' (1999), Zeitschrift
für Sprachwissenschaft 18.2, 180-205.
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Prince, A., & Smolensky, P. (1997), 'Optimality: From Neural Networks
to Universal Grammar', Science 275, 1604-1610.
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Smolensky, P. (1986), ‘Information processing in dynamical systems: foundation
of harmony theory’, in: D.E. Rumelhart and J.L McClelland (eds.), Explorations
in the microstructure of cognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 194-281.
OT Phonology
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Boursma, P. (1998), Functional phonology. Holland Academic
Graphics. The Hague
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Itô, J, Mester, A., & Padgett, J. (1995), ‘Underspecification
in optimality theory’. Linguistic Inquiry 26, 571-613.
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Prince, A. & Smolensky, P: (1993), Optimality Theory. Constraint interaction
in generative grammar. Book manuscript Rudgers University, New Brunswick,
N.J. and University of Colorado, Boulder. (To appear, MIT Press, Cambridge,
Mass.)..
OT Syntax/Morphology
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Aissen, J. (to appear), 'Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy'.
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Bresnan, J. (1997), 'The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun: Chichewa Pronominals
in Optimality Theory'. To appear in BLS-23 (Berkeley Linguistic Society).
Also available from: ROA-179-0297.
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Bresnan, J. (in press), 'The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun'.
In Optimality-theoretic Syntax, edited by Geraldine Legendre, Sten Vikner,
and Jane Grimshaw. MIT Press, Cambidge, Mass.
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Bresnan, J. (to appear), 'Optimal Syntax', in J. Dekkers, F. van der Leeuw
& J. van de Weijer (ed.), Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax and
Acquisition, Oxford University Press.
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Fanselow, G., Schlesewsky, M., Cavar, D., & Kliegl, R. (1999), ‘Optimal
parsing’. Manuscript, University of Potsdam.
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Fodor, J., Bever, T. & Garrett; M. (1974), The psychology
of language. New York: McGraw Hill.
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Frazier, L. & Clifton, C. (1996), Construal. MIT Press,
Cambidge, Mass.
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Gibson, E. & Broihier, K. (1998), ‘Optimality theory and
human sentence processing’, in: P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis,
and D. Pesetsky (eds.).
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Grimshaw, J. (1997), ‘Projections, Heads, and Optimality’. Linguistic Inquiry
28, 373-422. Prepublication as Minimal Projection, Heads, and Optimality
in ROA.
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Kuhn, J. (to appear), 'Generation and parsing in optimality theoretic syntax
- Issues in the formalization of OT-LFG (under final revision), in Peter
Sells (ed.), Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality-theoretic Syntax,
Stanford: CSLI Publications.
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Legendre, G., Smolensky, P. & Wilson, C. (1998), 'When is less
more?', in: P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky
(eds.).
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McCarthy, J. & Prince, A (1993), ‘Generalized alignment’. In G.E. Booij
and J. van Merle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1993. Kluwer, Dordrecht,
79-153.
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McCarthy, J. & Prince, A (1993), ‘Prosodic morphology I: constraint
interaction and satisfaction’. Ms . University of Massachusetts, Amherst
and Rutgers University.
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Pesetsky, D. (1997), ‘Optimality Theory and syntax: movement and pronunciation’,
in: D. Archangeli & D.T. Langendoen (eds.), Optimality theory: an overview.
Blackwell, Oxford, 134-170.
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Wurzel, Wolfgang U. (1998), ‘On markedness’. Theoretical Linguistics 24:
53-71
OT Learning
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Boersma, P. & Hayes, B. (2001), 'Empirical Tests of the
Gradual Learning Algorithm', Linguistic Inquiry 32, 45-86.
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Gibson, E. & Wexler, K. (1994), ‘Triggers’, Linguistic Inquiry
25, 407-454.
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Hale, M. & Reiss, C. (1998), 'Formal and empirical arguments concerning
phonological acquisition', Linguistic Inquiry 29, 656-683.
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Smolensky, P. (1996a), ‘On the comprehension/production dilemma in child
language’, Linguistic Inquiry 27, 720-731.
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Smolensky, P. (1996b), ‘The initial state and "richness of the base"
in optimality theory', Technical Report CU-CS-714-94. Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder.
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Tesar, B. & Smolensky, P. (2000), 'Learnability in Optimality Theory',
Linguistic Inquiry 29, 229-268.
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Tesar, B. & Smolensky, P. (2000), Learnability in Optimality
Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Computational Aspects
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Frank, R. & Satta, G. (1998), 'Optimality theory and the generative
complexity of constraint violability', Computational Linguistics
24, 307–315.
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Gerdemann, Dale, and Gertjan van Noord (2000), 'Approximation and exactness
in finite state Optimality Theory'. In SIGPHON 2000, Finite State Phonology.
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop of the ACL Special Interest Group in
Computational Phonology, Luxembourg.
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Jäger, G. (2000), 'Some notes on the formal properties of bidirectional
optimality theory', in Studies in Optimality Theory (R. Blutner
and G. Jäger, eds.), pp. 41-63. Linguistics in Potsdam, Potsdam.
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Karttunen, L. (1998), 'The proper treatment of optimality in computational
phonology', In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finite-State
Methods in Natural Language Processing, FSMNLP’98, pp. 1–12. To appear,
ROA-258-0498.
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Kuhn, J. (2000a), 'Faithfulness violations and bidirectional optimization'.
In M. Butt and T. H. King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG 2000 Conference,
Berkeley, CA, CSLI Proceedings Online, pp. 161–181.
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Kuhn, J. (2000b), 'Processing Optimality-theoretic syntax by interleaved
chart parsing and generation. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000), pp. 360–367,
Hongkong.
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Kuhn, J. (2001), 'Formal and Computational Aspects of Optimality-theoretic
Syntax', PhD thesis, Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung,
Univerität Stuttgart.
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Wartena, C. (2000), 'A note on the generative capacity of optimality systems',
in Studies in Optimality Theory (R. Blutner and G. Jäger, eds.),
pp. 64-72. Linguistics in Potsdam, Potsdam.
Also useful:
SIGPHON's computational OT bibliography at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon/
Several papers of Jason Eisner: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jeisner/papers
OT Semantics/Interpretation
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Anttila, A. & Fong, V. (2000), 'The Partitive
Constraint in Optimality Theory', Journal of Semantics 17.4.
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Beaver, David (to appear). 'The optimization of discourse'. Linguistics
and Philosophy.
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Blutner, R. (1998), ‘Lexical Pragmatics’. Journal of Semantics 15,
115-162.
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Blutner, R (2000), 'Some Aspects of Optimality in Natural Language Interpretation',
Journal
of Semantics 17.3.
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Burzio, L. (1998), ‘Anaphora and soft constraints’, in P. Barbosa, D. Fox,
P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky (eds.).
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Carston, R. (1998), ‘Informativeness, relevance and scalar implicature’.
In Robyn Carston and S. Uchida (eds.), Relevance Theory: Applications and
Implications. John Benjamins. Amsterdam.
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Dekker; P. & van Rooy; R. (2000), 'Bi-Directional Optimality
Theory: An Application of Game Theory', Journal of Semantics 17.3.
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Horn, L.R.. (1984), ‘Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based
and R-based implicatures’, in: D. Schiffrin (ed), Meaning, Form, and Use
in Context, Georgetown University Press, Washington, 11-42.
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Hendriks, P. & Hoop, H. de (2001), 'Optimality Theoretic Semantics',
Linguistics
& Philosophy 24, 1-32.
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Hoop, H. de (1999), ‘Optimal scrambling and interpretation’. To appear
in: H. Bennis & M. Everaert (eds.), Interface Strategies.
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Jäger, G. (2000), 'Some notes on the formal properties of bidirectional
optimality theory', in Studies in Optimality Theory (R. Blutner
and G. Jäger, eds.), pp. 41-63. Linguistics in Potsdam, Potsdam.
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Jäger, G. & Blutner, R. (2000), ‘Against lexical decomposition
in syntax’, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference,
IATL 7 (A.Z. Wyner, ed.), University of Haifa.
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Levinson, S. (1987), ‘Pragmatics and the grammar of anaphora’, Journal
of Linguistics 23, 379-434.
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Levinson, S. C. (2000), Presumptive Meanings. The MIT Press. Cambridge
& London.
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McCawley, J.D. (1978), ‘Conversational implicature and the lexicon’, in
P. Cole (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics, Academic Press, New
York, 245-259.
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Schwarzschild, R. (1999), ‘GIVENness, AvoidF and other constraints of the
placement of accent’, Natural Language Semantics.
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Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deirdre (1986), Relevance: Communication
and cognition. Blackwell. Oxford.
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Williams, E. (1997), ‘Blocking and anaphora’. Linguistic Inquiry 28, 577-628.
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Wilson, C. (to appear), 'Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Anaphora',
in G. Legendre et al. Optimality-theoretic Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge,
MA.
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Zeevat, H. (2000), 'The asymmetry of optimality theoretic syntax and semantics',
to appear in Journal of Semantics 17.3.
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Zeevat, H. (to appear), 'Explaining Presupposition Triggers'.
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Zipf, G.K. (1949), Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort, Addison-Wesley,
Cambridge
OT Software
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Hayes, Bruce, Bruce Tesar, and Kie Zuraw (2000) "OTSoft,"
software package, http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/otsoft/