What Constraints Should OT Allow
Jason M. Eisner · 2012
(1) Identifying such core constraints is at the center of the OT program: “The danger, therefore, lies in . . . clinging to a conception of Universal Grammar as little more than a loose organizing framework for grammars. A much stronger stance, in close accord with the thrust of recent work, is available . . .Universal Grammar can supply the very substance from which grammars are built: a set of highly general constraints, which, through ranking, interact to produce the elaborate particularity of individual languages.” (Prince & Smolensky 1993, p. 198)