1. Basic work on this phenomenon in neural network models and critiques include D. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland in Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Volume 2: Psychological and Biological Models J. L. McClelland D. E. Rumelhart PDP Research Group Eds. (MIT Press/Bradford Books Cambridge MA 1986) pp. 216–271; S. Pinker and J. Mehler Eds. Connections and Symbols (MIT Press Cambridge MA 1988).
2. Prince A., Smolensky P., Notes on Connectionism and Harmony Theory in Linguistics. (Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1991);
3. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar (Technical Report, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1993; also;
4. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, to appear);
5. McCarthy J. and , Prince A., Prosodic Morphology I (Technical Report RuCCS-TR-3, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1993); also;