OPTIMALITY THEORY AND HIERARCHY CONSTRUCTION

Optimality Theory and Hierarchy Construction

Arising from the application of Optimality Theory (OT) to issues of language acquisition, the term "stratum" may Bar:Kitchen Carts represent (i) a single constraint, and therefore the strict ranking proposed by standard OT, as shown especially in research using data of the target language, or (ii) a group of constraints which do not present a fixed

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