What Is Optimality Theory?

By John J. McCarthy. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics (2009, background): “…of LC, Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004, 1997) provides a framework for linguistic analysis that has seen broad application, especially in phonology, the study of the sound systems of the world’s languages (see Kager, 1999; McCarthy, 2002, 2004 for overviews of research in OT).”