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  <Title>Three Formal Extensions to Primitive Optimality Theory</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper proposes an expansion of set of primitive constraints available within the Primitive Optimality Theory framework (Eisner, 1997a).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This expansion consists of the addition of a new family of constraints--existential implicational constraints, which allow the specification of faithfulness constraints that can be satisfied at a distance--and the definition of two ways to combine simple constraints into com: plex constraints, that is, constraint disjunction (Crowhurst and Hewitt, 1995) and local constraint conjunction (Smolensky, 1995).</Paragraph>
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