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: This output candidate harmonically bounds all other possible output candidates. ==== Derived terms ==== harmonic bounding