... as strings(Eisner, 1997). In general, an OT grammar consists of 4 com-ponents: a constraint ranking, a harmony ordering, and generating and pronouncing functions. The con-straint ranking is ... Following Eisner (1997), eachcandidate (x, z) is also represented as a string y.The notation (x, z) that we have been using so farfor candidates is actually misleading, since in factthe candidates ... production. In the second line, Ciinserts ’s into candidates; then the candidates with suboptimalstarrings are pruned away, and finally the ’s are removed from the survivors.arbitrary substrings...