ROA: | 1301 |
Title: | Output-drivenness and partial phonological features |
Authors: | Giorgio Magri |
Comment: | To appear in Linguistic Inquiry |
Length: | 31 pages |
Abstract: | Tesar (2013) develops the notion of output-drivenness, provides guarantees that OT grammars satisfy it, and demonstrates its learnability implications. This squib discusses the extension of Tesar's theory to a representational framework with partial phonological features. It considers a hierarchy of notions of output-drivenness of increasing strength which can be defined within this extended framework. It determines the strongest notion of output-drivenness which holds in the case of partial features. And it shows that the learnability implications discussed by Tesar carry over to a framework with partial features only if feature undefinedness is effectively treated by identity faithfulness constraints as an additional feature value. |
Type: | Paper/tech report |
Area/Keywords: | Phonology, formal analysis |
Article: | Version 1
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