Table 2. OT: Markedness Constraint and Faithfulness Constraint

Examples of Markedness Constraints Examples of Faithfulness Constraints
- Vowels must not be nasal (*V NASAL).- Syllables must not have codas (NO CODA).- Syllables must have onsets (ONSET).- Obstruent must be voiced (*VD OBS).- Sonorants must be voiced (VD SON). - The output must preserve all segments present in the input (DEP-IO).- Elements adjacent in the input must be adjacent in the output (CONTIGUITY).- Input segments must have counterparts in the output (MAX-IO).- The specification for place of articulation of an input segment must be preserved in its output correspondent (IDENT-IO [PLACE]) (Kar 2010).