harmonically bound
English
Verb
harmonically bound (third-person singular simple present harmonically bounds, present participle harmonically bounding, simple past and past participle harmonically bounded)
- (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.
- In the example below, β is harmonically bounded by α:
Derived terms
- harmonic bounding