| ROA: | 1330 |
| Title: | Statistical learning theory and linguistic typology: a learnability perspective on OT's strict domination |
| Authors: | Emile Enguehard, Edward Flemming, Giorgio Magri |
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| Abstract: | This paper develops a learnability argument for strict domination by looking at the generalization error of learners trained on OT and HG target grammars. The argument is based on both a review of error bounds in the recent statistical learning literature and simulation results on realistic phonological test cases. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | constraint-based phonology; strict domination; harmonic grammar; learnability; generalization error; binary classification |
| Article: | Version 1
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