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Title: | From MParse to Control: deriving ungrammaticality |
Authors: | Orhan Orgun, Ronald Sprouse |
Comment: | 23 pages. File "Other" is Word 97 format requiring SIL Doulos IPA 93 font (available from http://www.sil.org free of charge) |
Length: | 23 |
Abstract: | In this paper we examine phonologically-conditioned morphological gaps in three languages, Turkish, Tagalog and Tiene, and demonstrate that MPARSE and the Null Parse as currently conceived in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993) do not successfully predict the existence of these gaps. By design MPARSE predicts no grammatical output when the Null Parse, which violates only the constraint MPARSE, is the winner in EVAL. We demonstrate in these three languages that this approach to ungrammaticality does not work when a winning ungrammatical candidate violates only constraints independently known to be ranked below MPARSE. We propose the addition of a second constraint component, CONTROL, with the purpose of restricting the class of grammatical outputs in a way that is empirically superior. |
Type: | Paper/tech report |
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Article: | Version 1 |