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An Optimal Lysis Time Maximizes Bacteriophage Fitness in Quasi-Continuous Culture
Optimality models have a checkered history in evolutionary biology. While optimality models have been successful in providing valuable insight into the evolution of a wide variety of biological traits, a common objection is that optimality models are ...
Sherin Kannoly +2 more
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The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1 [PDF]
The problem of opacity presents a challenge for generative phonology. This paper examines the process of Nasal Assimilation in Polish rendered opaque by the process of Vowel Deletion in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993), which currently is a ...
Iwan, Karolina
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Current linguistic theory presumes languages to be essentially similar because individuals have a genetic inclination to acquire language. Linguists strive to create a model of this abstract universal grammar that captures the core commonalities among ...
Inst. Dr. Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq
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Optimality Theory and Hierarchy Construction
Arising from the application of Optimality Theory (OT) to issues of language acquisition, the term "stratum" may represent (i) a single constraint, and therefore the strict ranking proposed by standard OT, as shown especially in research using data of ...
Carmen Lúcia Matzenauer +1 more
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Glottalization in Nuu-chah-nulth in Optimality Theory
Nootka and Ditidaht (Nuu-chap-nulth), which belong to the Southern Wakashan branch of the Wakashan language family, exhibit complex properties with respect to glottalization.
Kim, Eun-Sook
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Finding optimal strategies for minimum-error quantum-state discrimination [PDF]
We propose a numerical algorithm for finding optimal measurements for quantum-state discrimination. The theory of the semidefinite programming provides a simple check of the optimality of the numerically obtained results.Comment: 4 pages, 2 ...
A. Chefles +38 more
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HOW HAS OPTIMALITY THEORY ACHIEVED THE GOALS OF LINGUISTIC THEORY
Optimality Theory (OT) is a grammatical framework of recent origin presented by Prince and Smolensky in 1993. The central idea of Optimality Theory is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints.
Israa .B Abdurrahman
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The Optimality Theory Approach to"Partial Prefixed Reduplication" in Persian [PDF]
Each language uses different ways to create a new word. One of the ways is “Reduplication process”. It is a productive process in morphology. In this process, it is possible to repeat the whole or partial word (or base) and produce a new word with a ...
Leila Rahmati Nejad +2 more
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On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms.
E. Rasin, Roni Katzir
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Optimality Theory in Egyptian Arabic Phonological Acquisition [PDF]
This study investigates phonological acquisition in Egyptian Arabic (EA) within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). Previous research on EA phonological development has primarily focused on the acquisition of phonemes, syllable structures ...
Mona Maamoun
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