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Peer reviewedGuy, Gregory R. – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Compares models of Optimality Theory (OT) and Variable Rules (VR), arguing that VR is superior on theoretical and empirical grounds: constraint effects are stable, transparent, learnable. Moreover, VR's probabilistic treatment of constraint effects allows successful modeling of cases in which multiple violations of a single constraint lead to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Universals
