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Tesar, Bruce. (2007). A Comparison of Lexicographic and Linear Numeric Optimization Using Violation Difference Ratios. Ms., Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 26 pages. ROA-939.

Alderete, John, and Bruce Tesar. (2002). Learning covert phonological interaction: an analysis of the problem posed by the interaction of stress and epenthesis. RuCCS Technical Report TR-72, Rutgers University. 12 pages. ROA-543.

Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (1996). Learnability in Optimality Theory (short version). Technical Report JHU-CogSci-96-2, Cognitive Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University. 64 pages (double spaced). ROA-155.
A revised version of this paper has appeared as Tesar & Smolensky 1998: Learnability in Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry 29:2. 229-268.

Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (1996). Learnability in Optimality Theory (long version). Technical Report JHU-CogSci-96-3, Cognitive Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University. 68 pages (single spaced). ROA-156.

Tesar, Bruce. (1995). Computational Optimality Theory. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder. 127 pages.  ROA-90. https://doi.org/10.7282/T3D798RT

Tesar, Bruce. (1995). Computing Optimal Forms in Optimality Theory: Basic Syllabification. Technical Report CU-CS-763-95, University of Colorado, Boulder. 28 pages. ROA-52.

Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (1993). The Learnability of Optimality Theory: an Algorithm and some Basic Complexity Results. Ms., University of Colorado, Boulder. 24 pages. ROA-2.