OT constraints are categorical

By John J. McCarthy. Phonology, 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. John J. McCarthy
2. Joe Pater
3. Jie Zhang
4. Jeffrey Heinz
5. M. Wolf
6. KevinM . Ryan
7. Sam Hellmuth
8. R. Meşter

In Language and Linguistics

1. John J. McCarthy
2. Joe Pater
3. KevinM . Ryan
4. Jeffrey Heinz
5. Jie Zhang
6. M. Wolf
7. Sam Hellmuth
8. R. Meşter

Citations in the corpus

• Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. (2006, background): “27 This is an Alignment constraint which relies on gradient degrees of violation to evaluate potential candidates (McCarthy 2003).”
• On the role of locality in learning stress patterns* (2009, background): “When computing the typology, having only neighbourhood-distinct constraints would have the desirable effect that many of the unattested patterns – like those describable with feet with four or more syllables – are not found within the typology.”
• A directional asymmetry in Chinese tone sandhi systems (2007, background): “In these definitions, faithfulness is defined as constraint families, with each member in the family representing one point on the perceptual scale away from the input; they hence heed McCarthy (2003)’s warning that ‘‘OT constraints are categorical.’’”
• Less than zero: Correspondence and the null output (2007, background): “McCarthy (2003) moves in this direction by suggesting in passing that the null output’s correspondence relation with the input is undefined, and that as such it cannot violate any faithfulness constraints.”
• Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics (2009, background): “In counting the distance between two portions of the representation, these constraints assign violation scores in an unusual manner, both in comparison with other OT constraints, and with ones elsewhere in GL (Bı́ró, 2003; Eisner, 1998; McCarthy, 2003; Potts & Pullum, 2002).”
• Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics* (2011, background): “A categorical constraint (e.g. *HEAVY/W) is either violated or not for each locus of violation; it cannot be violated multiple times (or to some other degree) by a single locus (McCarthy 2003).”
• Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic (2008, neutral): “…1949; Mester 1986; Yip 1989) b. English, French, Latin (Berkley 2000) c. Russian (Padgett 1995) d. Yamato Japanese (Kawahara et al. 2006) e. Rotuman (McCarthy 2003b) In this section, we report on the consonant co-occurrence restrictions in the Western Austronesian language Muna (van den Berg 1989).”