<OT> Updates: ROA-982, 983, 984

[Rutgers Optimality Archive]

[ This Optimal List posting is sent on behalf of Joe Pater. ]

Dear all,
My colleagues and I have recently updated a set of related ROA papers, and I
thought it could be useful to summarize the changes, and also to make clear
what each paper focuses on.

Best,
Joe Pater.

ROA-982 Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics
Publication information: Slightly revised version in press in Cognitive
Science.
Contents: General comparison of Harmonic Grammar with "classic" OT
Revisions: This paper replaces an earlier posting "Optimization and
Linguistic Typology". The new version is considerably shorter, and also
improved in some ways. The main cut is a section on serial Harmonic Grammar;
some of this material will appear in the following paper:
Pater, Joe. To appear. Serial Harmonic Grammar and Berber syllabification.
In Toni Borowsky, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya & Mariko Sugahara (eds.)
Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth O. Selkirk. London: Equinox
Press.

ROA-983 Review of Smolensky and Legendre (2006)
Publication information: Slightly revised version appearing in Phonology
26(1). 217–226.
Contents: Review, general comparison of Harmonic Grammar with OT with local
conjunction
Revisions: The new version has only minor revisions.

ROA-984 Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to
linguistic typology
Authors: Christopher Potts, Joe Pater, Karen Jesney, Rajesh Bhatt and
Michael Becker
Publication information: MS, UMass Amherst.
Contents: Method for finding constraint weights with Linear Programming,
application of this method to phonological analysis and typology
calculations, specific comparisons of HG with classic OT and OT with local
constraint conjunction
Revisions: The new version is considerably longer, with further discussion
of the Linear Programming method, a new analysis of Lango vowel harmony in
HG and comparison with earlier OT and parametric analyses, and an
examination of the typological consequences of weighted constraints for
positional markedness/faithfulness. The earlier version's discussion of
scalar constraints has been removed; some of this material can also be found
in the Serial Harmonic Grammar paper cited above.

-- Eric
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