Tesar, Bruce. (2014). Output-Driven Phonology<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (2000). Learnability in Optimality Theory<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n Nyman, Alexandra, & Bruce Tesar. (2019). Determining underlying presence in the learning of grammars that allow insertion and deletion<\/a>. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics<\/em> 4(1), 37. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/gjgl.603<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2016). Phonological learning with output-driven maps<\/a>. Language Acquisition<\/em> 24:2. 148-167. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10489223.2016.1223079<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2006). Faithful contrastive features in learning<\/a>. Cognitive Science<\/em> 30:5. 863-903. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1207\/s15516709cog0000_84<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2004). Using inconsistency detection to overcome structural ambiguity in language learning<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 35:2. 219-253. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/002438904323019057<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (1998). Learning Optimality-Theoretic grammars. Lingua<\/em> 106. 161-196.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (1998). Learnability in Optimality Theory<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 29:2. 229-268. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/002438998553734<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (1998). An iterative strategy for language learning. Lingua<\/em> 104. 131-145.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2007). Learnability. In Paul de Lacy, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology<\/em>, Cambridge University Press. 555-574.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2006). Learning from Paradigmatic Information<\/a>. In Eric Bakovic, Junko Ito, and John McCarthy (eds.), Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince<\/em>. Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz. 293-310. https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/7jt3z39w<\/p>\n Smolensky, Paul, G\u00e9raldine Legendre, & Bruce Tesar. (2006). Optimality Theory: The structure, use, and acquisition of grammatical knowledge. In Paul Smolensky & G\u00e9raldine Legendre, The<\/em> Harmonic Mind<\/em>, Chapter 12. MIT Press. 453-544.<\/p>\n Smolensky, Paul, & Bruce Tesar. (2006). Symbolic computation with activation patterns. In Paul Smolensky & G\u00e9raldine Legendre, The Harmonic Mind<\/em>, Chapter 7. MIT Press. 235-270.<\/p>\n Prince, Alan, & Bruce Tesar. (2004). Learning phonotactic distributions<\/a>. In Rene Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld (eds.), Fixing Priorities: Constraints in Phonological Acquisition<\/em>. Cambridge University Press. 245-291. ROA-353.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, & Paul Smolensky. (2003). Learnability in Optimality Theory. In McCarthy, John (ed.), Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Book of Readings<\/em>. Blackwell. 118-140. Excerpted reprint of Tesar & Smolensky (1998a) Learnability in Optimality Theory.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2003). Computing optimal forms in Optimality Theory: Basic syllabification. In McCarthy, John (ed.), Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Book of Readings<\/em>. Blackwell. 101-117. Excerpted reprint of Tesar (1995).<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2003). Learnability: Learning Theory and Grammars. In Frawley, William (ed.), The<\/em> Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics<\/em> (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press. 434-437.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2000). On the roles of optimality and strict domination in language learning. In Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jereon van de Weijer (eds.), Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition<\/em>. Oxford University Press. 592-620.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, Jane Grimshaw, & Alan Prince. (1999). Linguistic and cognitive explanation in Optimality Theory. In Ernest Lepore & Zenon Pylyshyn (eds.), What is Cognitive Science?<\/em> Blackwell. 295-326.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (1998). Error-driven learning in Optimality Theory via the efficient computation of optimal forms. In Pilar Barbosa, Danny Fox, Paul Hagstrom, Martha McGinnis, & David Pesetsky (eds.), Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax<\/em>. MIT Press and MITWPL. 421-435.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2014). When worst is best: Grammar construction in phonological learning<\/a>. Proceedings of the Forty-Third Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (2012)<\/em>. 167-180. ROA-1185.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2012). Learning phonological grammars for output-driven maps<\/a>. Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (2008)<\/em>. 785-798. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7282\/T39G5JR3<\/p>\n Merchant, Nazarr\u00e9, & Bruce Tesar. (2008). Learning underlying forms by searching restricted lexical subspaces<\/a>. Proceedings of the Forty-First Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2005), vol. II: The Panels<\/em>. 33-47. ROA-811.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, & Alan Prince. (2007). Using phonotactics to learn phonological alternations<\/a>. Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Conference of the Chicago Linguistics Society (2003), vol. II: The Panels<\/em>. 209-237. ROA-620.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2006). Learning from paradigmatic information<\/a>. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Conference of the North East Linguistics Society (2005)<\/em>. 619-638.<\/p>\n Alderete, John, Adrian Brasoveanu, Nazarr\u00e9 Merchant, Alan Prince, & Bruce Tesar. (2005). Contrast analysis aids in the learning of phonological underlying forms (PDF)<\/a>. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2005)<\/em>. 34-42. http:\/\/www.lingref.com\/cpp\/wccfl\/24\/paper1204.pdf<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce, John Alderete, Graham Horwood, Nazarr\u00e9 Merchant, Koichi Nishitani, & Alan Prince. (2003). Surgery in language learning<\/a>. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2003)<\/em>. 477-490. ROA-619.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (2002). Enforcing grammatical restrictiveness can help resolve structural ambiguity<\/a>. Proceedings of the Twenty-First West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2002)<\/em>. 443-456. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7282\/T3SN0BRS<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (1999). Robust interpretive parsing in metrical stress theory. Proceedings of the Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (1998)<\/em>. 625-639.<\/p>\n Tesar, Bruce. (1998). Using the mutual inconsistency of structural descriptions to overcome ambiguity in language learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society (1997)<\/em>. 469-483.<\/p>\nJournal Articles<\/h2>\n
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