Constraint summation in phonological theory

The classical constraints used in phonological theory apply to a single candidate at time. Yet, some proposals the literature have enriched constraint toolkit with that instead multiple candidates simultaneously. For instance, Dispersion Theory (Flemming 2002, 2004, 2008) adopts distinctiveness penalize pairs of surface forms which are not sufficiently dispersed. Also, approaches paradigm uniformity effects (Kenstowicz 1997; McCarthy 2005) adopt Optimal Paradigm faithfulness stems similar. As consequence, these need “lift” from by summing violations across candidates.Is this assumption summation typologically innocuous? Or do make different typological predictions when they summed, independently presence or optimal constraints? answer depends on underlying model optimization, namely how profiles ordered determine smallest one. Extending an independent result Prince (2015), paper characterizes those orderings for is innocuous. corollary, innocuousness established within both Optimality and Harmonic Grammar.