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- Title
Will Optimality Theory colonize all of higher cognition?
- Authors
Biró, Tamás
- Abstract
To establish Optimality Theory as a framework in anthropology, or as a general model of higher human cognition, researchers have to demonstrate OT is convincing in a number of ways. This commentary summarizes some of them – based on experience obtained in contemporary linguistic OT – including factorial typologies, exact formulation of candidate sets and constraints, and computational plausibility.
- Subjects
OPTIMALITY theory (Linguistics); ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics; LINGUISTIC typology; COGNITION; CONSTRAINTS (Linguistics); PLAUSIBILITY (Logic); GRAMMAR
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 5, p383
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X10001937