4-23-2019, 1:02 p.m.

OTSoft 2.5, release date 1/17/2017

1. Result

A ranking was found that generates the correct outputs.

Stratum	Constraint Name	Abbreviation
Stratum #1	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid
	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal
	*NCV~	*NCV~
	*k~	*k~
	Max oral stop	Max oral stop
Stratum #2	Max nasal stop	Max nasal stop
Stratum #3	*Nasalized	*Nasalized
Stratum #4	Max(nasal) in vocoids	Max(nasal) in vocoids

2. Tableaux

/a~/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   a								*
a~							*!

/ama/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   ama
a~ma							*!

/amba/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   a~mba							*
a~mba~							**!
aba						*!
ama					*!
amba		*!
amba~		*!					*

/kawa-mpa/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   ka~w~a~mpa							***
k~a~w~a~mpa				*!			***
kawa-mpa		*!
kawa~mpa	*!						*
kaw~a~mpa	*!						**

/kankawa-mpa/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   ka~nkawapa							*
ka~nk~a~w~a~mpa				*!			*****
ka~nka~w~a~mpa			*!				****
ka~nkawampa		*!					*
ka~nkaw~a~mpa	*!						***

/wampa-nta-nka/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*NCV~	*k~	Max oral stop	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   w~a~mpata~nka						*	***
wapa~ntaka						**!	*
wapata~nka						**!	*
w~a~mpataka						**!	**
wapataka						**!*
w~a~mpa~ntaka			*!			*	*
wapa~nta~nka			*!			*	**
w~a~mpa~nta~nka			*!*				****

3. Status of Proposed Constraints: Necessary or Unnecessary

Constraint	Status
*Nasalized	Necessary
Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	Necessary
*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	Necessary
*NCV~	Necessary
*k~	Necessary
Max nasal stop	Necessary
Max oral stop	Necessary
Max(nasal) in vocoids	Not necessary (but included to show Faithfulness violations of a winning candidate)

4. Ranking Arguments, based on the Fusional Reduction Algorithm

This run sought to obtain the Skeletal Basis, intended to keep each final ranking argument as pithy as possible.

The final rankings obtained are as follows:

Max oral stop >> *Nasalized
*Nasalized >> Max(nasal) in vocoids
Max nasal stop >> *Nasalized
*NCV~ >> Max nasal stop
*Oral voicoid before coda nasal >> *Nasalized
Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid >> *Nasalized

5. Mini-Tableaux

The following small tableaux may be useful in presenting ranking arguments. They include all winner-rival comparisons in which there is just one winner-preferring constraint and at least one loser-preferring constraint. Constraints not violated by either candidate are omitted.

/a~/:	*Nasalized	Max(nasal) in vocoids
☞   a		*
a~	*

/amba/:	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*Nasalized
☞   a~mba		*
amba	*

/amba/:	Max oral stop	*Nasalized
☞   a~mba		*
ama	*

/amba/:	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   a~mba		*
aba	*

/kawa-mpa/:	*Oral voicoid before coda nasal	*Nasalized
☞   ka~w~a~mpa		***
kawa-mpa	*

/kawa-mpa/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Nasalized
☞   ka~w~a~mpa		***
kawa~mpa	*	*

/kawa-mpa/:	Oral vocoid before nasal vocoid	*Nasalized
☞   ka~w~a~mpa		***
kaw~a~mpa	*	**

/wampa-nta-nka/:	*NCV~	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka		*	***
wapa~nta~nka	*	*	**

/wampa-nta-nka/:	*NCV~	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka		*	***
w~a~mpa~ntaka	*	*	*

/wampa-nta-nka/:	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka	*	***
w~a~mpataka	**	**

/wampa-nta-nka/:	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka	*	***
wapa~ntaka	**	*

/wampa-nta-nka/:	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka	*	***
wapata~nka	**	*

/wampa-nta-nka/:	Max nasal stop	*Nasalized
☞   w~a~mpata~nka	*	***
wapataka	** *