Three Formal Extensions to Primitive Optimality Theory
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This paper proposes an expansion of set of primitive constraints available within the Primitive Optimality Theory framework (Eisner, 1997a). This expansion consists of the addition of a new family of constraints—existential implicational constraints, which allow the specification of faithfulness constraints that can be satisfied at a distance—and the definition of two ways to combine simple constraints into complex constraints, that is, constraint disjunction (Crowhurst and Hewitt, 1995) and local constraint conjunction (Smolensky, 1995).
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