Gerhard Jaeger will present a discussion of the following work.
Paul Boersma and Clara Levelt.
2000. Gradual constraint-ranking learning algorithm predicts
acquisition order.. Proceedings of Child Language Research
Forum 30, Stanford, California, pp. 229-237.
[http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/]
Gerhard Jaeger and Anette Rosenbach.
2004. The winner takes it all -- almost. Cumulativity
in grammatical variation, manuscript, University
of Potsdam and University of Düsseldorf
[http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~jaeger/]
Gerhard Jaeger.
2003. Maximum Entropy Models and Stochastic Optimality Theory,
manuscript, University of Potsdam
[ROA and http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~jaeger/]