Giorgio Magri

1paper

1 Paper

CLJul 12, 2019
Equiprobable mappings in weighted constraint grammars

Arto Anttila, Scott Borgeson, Giorgio Magri

We show that MaxEnt is so rich that it can distinguish between any two different mappings: there always exists a nonnegative weight vector which assigns them different MaxEnt probabilities. Stochastic HG instead does admit equiprobable mappings and we give a complete formal characterization of them. We compare these different predictions of the two frameworks on a test case of Finnish stress.