linguistics, optimality theory (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the optimal satisfaction...

experiments. Since the optimality criterion of most optimal designs is based on some function of the information matrix, the 'optimality' of a given design...

achieve this goal. OFT is an ecological application of the optimality model. This theory assumes that the most economically advantageous foraging pattern...

as Government and binding theory and the Minimalist program. Other present-day generative models include Optimality theory, Categorial grammar, and Tree-adjoining...

certain optimality criterion is achieved. A control problem includes a cost functional that is a function of state and control variables. An optimal control...

Optimality Theory, a grammar formalism providing a formal theory of cross-linguistic typology (or Universal Grammar) within linguistics. Optimality Theory...

up optimality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Optimality may refer to: Mathematical optimization Optimality Theory in linguistics optimality model...

nominative–accusative case marking system can be explained is from an Optimality Theoretic perspective. Case marking is said to fulfill two functions,...

Optimal distinctiveness is a social psychological theory seeking to understand ingroup–outgroup differences. It asserts that individuals desire to attain...

smaller subproblems. Bellman's principle of optimality describes how to do this: Principle of Optimality: An optimal policy has the property that whatever the...

Morphology, Routledge 2018 Doing Optimality Theory: Applying Theory to Data, Wiley-Blackwell 2008 Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell...

computational linguistics. Still, other methods in phonology (e.g. optimality theory, which uses lattice graphs) and morphology (e.g. finite-state morphology...

differentiate between even more cases) at the end.[citation needed] In optimality theory, asterisks are used as "violation marks" in tableau cells to denote...

or optimality may also refer to: Engineering optimization Feedback-directed optimisation, in computing Optimality model in biology Optimality theory, in...

Optimality Theory: Applying Theory to Data is a 2008 book by John McCarthy in which the author provides a practical introduction to optimality theory...

of adaptations. The approach based on optimality models in biology is sometimes called optimality theory. Optimal behavior is defined as an action that...

Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory is a 2001 book by John McCarthy in which the author provides a theoretical introduction to optimality theory. The book was...

In optimal control theory, a control is a variable chosen by the controller or agent to manipulate state variables, similar to an actual control valve...

the standard theory of representation for theories of the organization of phonology as different as lexical phonology and optimality theory. Government...

or more optimality conditions cannot be satisfied. The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956, that if one optimality condition...

University-New Brunswick. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory, which was originally applied to phonology, but has been extended...

(pilcrow). In linguistics, the symbol is used in optimality theory tableaux to identify the optimal output in a candidate of generated possibilities from...

explicitly connectionist – see e.g. Pater (2009) and Potts et al. (2010). Optimality theory Keller, Frank. (2000). Gradience in grammar: Experimental and computational...

nonsatiation to get to a weak Pareto optimum. Constrained Pareto efficiency is a weakening of Pareto optimality, accounting for the fact that a potential...

Markedness Theory: The Union of Asymmetry and Semiosis in Language, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Archangeli, Diana 1997 "Optimality Theory: An Introduction...

branches of decision theory: Normative decision theory: Concerned with the identification of optimal decisions, where optimality is often determined by...

On the other hand, a strong hypothesis adopted in some variants of Optimality Theory holds that humans are born with a universal set of constraints, and...

Bruce (2000). "Gradient well-formedness in Optimality Theory" (PDF). In Joost Dekkers (ed.). Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition. Oxford...

There has been little LFG work on phonology (although ideas from optimality theory have recently been popular in LFG research). LFG views language as...

derivational rule-based phonology, its analysis in standard parallel Optimality Theory is problematic. Isogloss Sound change Murray, Robert (2001). "Historical...