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harmonically_bound

harmonically bound

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harmonically bound (third-person singular simple present harmonically bounds, present participle harmonically bounding, simple past and past participle harmonically bounded)

  1. (transitive, linguistics, Optimality Theory) Of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.
In the example below, β is harmonically bounded by α:
Input γ Constraint 1 Constraint 2
α
β * *
This output candidate harmonically bounds all other possible output candidates.

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