<OT> New Posting: ROA-794

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ROA 794-1205

Ranking and Necessity. Part I

Adrian Brasoveanu <abrsvn at eden.rutgers.edu>
Alan Prince <prince at ruccs.rutgers.edu>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=794


Abstract:
Understanding a linguistic theory within OT requires an
exact characterization of  the ranking conditions necessitated
by data. We describe (Part I) and justify (Part II) an algorithm
which calculates the necessary and sufficient ranking conditions
inherent in any collection of candidates and presents them
in a maximally concise and informative way. The algorithm,
stemming from the original proposal of Brasoveanu 2003,
develops in the setting of the fusional ERC theory of Prince
2002 (ROA-500).

Comments: 
Keywords: ranking, RCD, ERC, FRed
Areas: Formal Analysis, Learnability, Computation
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=794