Associations to the word «Optimality»

Wiktionary

OPTIMALITY, noun. The property of being optimal.
OPTIMALITY THEORY, proper noun. (linguistics) A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky