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Error-driven learning in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar: a comparison*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2017

Giorgio Magri
Giorgio Magri*
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CNRS, Université Paris 8
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E-mail: magrigrg@gmail.com.
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Abstract

OT error-driven learning admits guarantees of efficiency, stochastic tolerance and noise robustness which hold independently of any substantive assumptions on the constraints. This paper shows that the HG learner used in the current literature does not admit such constraint-independent guarantees. The HG theory of error-driven learning thus needs to be substantially restricted to specific constraint sets.

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Phonology , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , December 2016 , pp. 493 - 532
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Footnotes

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Parts of this paper were presented at the 21st Manchester Phonology Meeting in 2013 and at the 11th Old World Conference in Phonology in 2014. I wish to thank Paul Boersma and Joe Pater for useful discussion. Three anonymous reviewers and the associate editor of the journal also provided me with detailed and valuable suggestions. The research reported in this paper was supported by a grant from the Fyssen Research Foundation, as well as by a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme.

Appendices providing more technical details and simulation results can be found in supplementary online materials at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675716000221.

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