Bidirectional Optimality Theory
1st Edition
Published in December 2011
V, 279 pages
978-90-272-8452-5 (ISBN)
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Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics-semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic approaches. Optimality Theory holds that linguistic output can be understood as the optimized products of ranked constraints. At the centre of BiOT is the insight that this optimisation has to take place both in production and interpretation, and that the production-interpretation cycle has to lead back to the original input. BiOT is now generally interpreted as a description of diachronically stable and cognitively optimal form-meaning pairs. It found applications beyond the semantics-pragmatics interface in language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonology, syntax, and typology. This book provides a state of the art overview of these developments. It collects nine chapters by leading scientists in the field.
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- Bidirectional Optimality Theory
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 1. Optimality Theory
- 2. Bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 3. Stochastic Optimality Theory
- 4. Games and Bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 5. Overview
- References
- A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolution
- 1. Phonological representations: Underlying and Surface Form
- 1.1 The relation between underlying form and surface form
- 1.2 The process of merely-phonological production
- 1.3 The process of merely-phonological comprehension
- 1.4 Merely-phonological acquisition
- 1.5 Merely-phonological evolution
- 1.6 What is wrong with merely-phonological grammars?
- 2. Phonetic representations: Auditory and Articulatory Form
- 2.1 The relation between Auditory Form and Articulatory form
- 2.2 The process of merely-phonetic articulation
- 2.3 The processes of merely-phonetic audition
- 2.4 Merely-phonetic acquisition
- 2.5 Merely-phonetic evolution
- 3. The phonology-phonetics interface
- 3.1 The relation between Surface Form and Auditory Form
- 3.2 The process of prelexical perception
- 3.3 Unidirectional acquisition of prelexical perception
- 3.4 The process of prototype selection
- 3.5 Acquisition of prototype selection?
- 3.6 The evolution of the phonology-phonetics interface
- 3.7 Is this how the phonology-phonetics interface works?
- 4. The three 'low' representations: Articulatory Form - Auditory Form - Surface Form
- 4.1 The process of phonetic production
- 4.2 The acquisition of phonetic knowledge
- 4.3 The evolution of phonetic implementation
- 4.4 Is this how the phonetic representations are connected to the phonology?
- 5. The three 'middle' representations: Auditory Form - Surface Form - Underlying Form
- 5.1 The serial edition of the process of phonetic-phonological comprehension
- 5.2 The parallel edition of the process of phonetic-phonological comprehension
- 6. The quadruplet Underlying - Surface - Auditory - Articulatory
- 6.1 The process of phonological-phonetic production
- 6.2 The acquisition of phonological-phonetic production
- 7. Semantic representations
- 8. The phonology-semantics interface: The lexicon
- 8.1 Relations
- 8.2 The process of lexical retrieval in production
- 8.3 The process of the access of meaning in comprehension
- 8.4 The acquisition of lexical relations
- 9. The triplet Morphemes - Underlying Form - Surface Form
- 9.1 The influence of Morphemes (and Context) on word recognition
- 9.2 Acquisition
- 10. Discussion
- 10.1 The larger picture: Whole-language simulations
- 10.2 The assumptions: Naïve bidirectionality and multi-level parallelism
- References
- A note on the emergence of subject salience
- 1. Introduction: Salience and subjecthood
- 2. Centering Theory's Rule 1
- 3. Bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 4. Beaver's COT
- 5. Evolving subject salience
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Stochastic OT
- 5.3 Bidirectional learning
- 5.4 Bidirectional learning & frequency effects
- 5.5 Evolving Rule 1 with Evolutionary OT
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Language acquisition and language change in bidirectional Optimality Theory
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pronouns and reflexives
- 3. A bi-OT model of language acquisition
- 3.1 The delay of Principle B effect in language acquisition
- 3.2 Adult language users and bidirectional optimization
- 3.3 Child language users and unidirectional optimization
- 4. A bi-OT model of language change
- 4.1 The BiGLA learning algorithm
- 4.2 A hypothetical corpus of Old English
- 4.3 An Optimality Theoretic grammar
- 5. Comparing the two models
- 5.1 Constraints on pronominal binding
- 5.2 Types of optimization
- 5.3 Reformulating bidirectional optimality
- 5.4 The recognition problem
- 5.5 Adult processing of pronouns
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Sense and Simplicity
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Case Distinguishability
- 3. Recoverability as bidirectionality
- 4. The Landscape of Bidirectionality
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- On the interaction of tense, aspect and modality in Dutch
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Actuality entailment
- 3. Conflicting constraints
- 4. A bidirectional optimization analysis
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Production and Comprehension in Context
- 1. Introduction
- 2. An OT analysis of word order
- 3. Limits of the simple strong bidirectional model
- 4. Modeling Ambiguity and Optionality
- 5. Cross-linguistic Differences
- 6. Conclusion
- 7. Acknowledgements
- References
- Bayesian interpretation and optimality theory
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emulating Bayesian Interpretation
- 2.1 Levels and Arrows
- 2.2 Linking
- 2.3 Representations
- 2.4 Bidirectional inter-representation arrows
- 2.5 Context model
- 2.6 Emulation
- 3. Pragmatics as p(I) maximation
- 4. An OT model of production and interpretation?
- 5. Improving production
- 6. Consequences for Acquisition
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Bidirectional grammar and bidirectional optimization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The architecture of the human language faculty
- 3. Bidirectional optimization and fossilization
- 4. Bidirectionality and the Sensorimotor System
- 5. Bidirectionality and grammar
- 6. Pragmatics in OT
- 7. Conclusions
- Acknowledgement
- References
- On Bidirectional Optimality Theory for Dynamic Contexts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. OT-Systems
- 3. Blutner Structures
- Blutner Structures
- Optimality and Weak Optimality
- Blutner Structures and OT-Systems
- Blutner Structures with Context-Sensitive Constraints
- 4. Mattausch's Example
- 5. Bidirectional OT for Dynamic Contexts
- 6. Summary
- References
- Index
