This tutorial describes how you can draw Optimality-Theoretic and Harmonic-Grammar tableaus and simulate Optimality-Theoretic and Harmonic-Grammar learning with Praat.

You can read this tutorial sequentially with the help of the “< 1” and “1 >” buttons.

1. Kinds of grammars (ordinal and stochastic, OTGrammar)

2. The grammar

   2.1. Viewing a grammar (NOCODA example, OTGrammarEditor)

   2.2. Inside the grammar (saving, inspecting)

   2.3. Defining your own grammar

   2.4. Evaluation (noise)

   2.5. Editing a grammar

   2.6. Variable output (place assimilation example)

   2.7. Tableau pictures (printing, EPS)

   2.8. Asking for one output

   2.9. Output distributions

3. Generating language data

   3.1. Data from a pair distribution

   3.2. Data from another grammar (tongue-root-harmony example)

4. Learning an ordinal grammar

5. Learning a stochastic grammar

6. Shortcut to grammar learning

7. Learning from overt forms

Links to this page

• Acknowledgments
• constraints
• Create tongue-root grammar...
• Intro
• New menu
• Optimality Theory
• Types of objects
• What was new in 3.6?