harmonic bounding

English

Noun

harmonic bounding (uncountable)

(linguistics, Optimality Theory) A situation where one input-to-output mapping pair receives a set of constraint violations that is a proper subset of the set of constraint violations received by a different input-output pair.

Derived terms

harmonically bound

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