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  <Title>DEFAULTS IN UNIFICATION GRAMMAR</Title>
  <Section position="11" start_page="170" end_page="170" type="concl">
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&amp; CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented a general definition for default unification. The fact that It does not focus one the resolution of feature conflicts alone, makes it possible to define default unification as an operation on feature structures, rather than as an operation adding one equation at a tlme to a given feature description. This generalization makes it possible to give a uniform treatment of such things as adding default Information to a template, overwriting of feature values and lexical default rules. We believe that the examples in section 3 demonstrate that this is a useful extension of UG, as it supports the definition of exceptions, the formulation more adequate theories of feature percolation, and the extension of UG with a morphological component.</Paragraph>
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