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ROA 928-1007

OT-Help 1.0 User Manual

Michael Becker <michael at linguist.umass.edu>
Joe Pater <pater at linguist.umass.edu>

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Abstract:
OT-Help (Becker, Pater & Potts 2007) is a free open-source
Java-based program that aids research in Optimality Theory
(OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) and its cousin, Harmonic
Grammar (HG, Smolensky and Legendre 2006). OT-Help will
find a constraint ranking or weighting consistent with the
data provided by the user, if one exists. The solution can
be displayed either in a standard tableau format, or as
a comparative tableau (Prince 2002a). OT-Help will also
find the set of possible languages in both OT and HG, given
the user's set of constraints. Typology can also be explored
interactively by selecting different sets of optima.


OT-Help is available at
http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~OTHelp/

Comments: To appear in In Michael Becker (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 36: Papers in Theoretical and Computational Phonology. Amherst: GLSA.
Keywords: Harmonic grammar, typology, weighting, RCD, linear programming
Areas: Phonology,Computation,Formal Analysis
Type: Manuscript

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