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A webapp for the syntax-prosody analyst working in Optimality Theory, with automated Gen, Con and Eval. Download build files from syntax-prosody-ot/build
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precisify StrongStartInit (strongStart_catInit) #456

Closed jbellik closed 3 years ago

jbellik commented 4 years ago

[to be taken care of after AMP2020]

jbellik commented 4 years ago

Upon further communication with Nick K, this constraint is supposed to also penalize configurations like {w w (w)}, where the initial w isn't adjacent to a phi but does have a phi sister. That is, any higher category sister, not just the next sister, triggers a violation.

nkalivoda commented 4 years ago

That is correct, but it is my fault for not clarifying that earlier. It does not follow from the definition I provided, because I invented it for a system that didn't include {w w (w)} in Gen. However, it was most definitely the intention; if I had considered a system with a less restrictive Gen, I would have defined it in a more generalizable way.

I need to think about this some more, and consult with @jbellik, before we fix this, so please hold off for now.