Recommended literature:

Introduction to Optimality Theory:

• Paul Smolensky: Optimality Theory, in: MIT CogNet Library (a quick reference written by one of the founding fathers)
• Prince and Smolensky 1993 / 2002 / 2004 (the basic reference)
• Rutgers Optimality Archives (a collection of hundreds of articles, books, preprints, manuscripts, etc.)
• OTSoft: Optimality Theory Software

On Simulated Annealing Optimality Theory (SA-OT):

(links to be added sooner or later)

• A very mathematical introduction to the algorithm: FG-MoL
• A less formal introduction and the model for Dutch stress in normal and fast speech: CLIN
• My dissertation

Publications of Tamas Biro