Dear all,<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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.<br>
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Best,<br>
Joe Pater.<br>
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ROA-982 Weighted Constraints in Generative Linguistics<br>
Publication information: Slightly revised version in press in Cognitive Science.<br>
Contents: General comparison of Harmonic Grammar with "classic" OT<br>
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:<br>
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.<br>
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ROA-983 Review of Smolensky and Legendre (2006)<br>
Publication information: Slightly revised version appearing in Phonology 26(1). 217–226.<br>
Contents: Review, general comparison of Harmonic Grammar with OT with local conjunction<br>
Revisions: The new version has only minor revisions.<br>
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ROA-984 Harmonic Grammar with Linear Programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology<br>
Authors: Christopher Potts, Joe Pater, Karen Jesney, Rajesh Bhatt and Michael Becker<br>
Publication information: MS, UMass Amherst.<br>
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<br>
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.<br>
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