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Local conjunction and comparative markedness

  • Ania Łubowicz
Published/Copyright: February 21, 2008
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Abstract

1. Introduction

In classic Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), markedness constraints evaluate output well-formedness, whereas faithfulness constraints evaluate input-output disparity. Thus, markedness constraints have access only to the output while faithfulness constraints view both the input and the output.

Published Online: 2008-02-21
Published in Print: 2003-11-24

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