Harmonic Serialism in Azbayjani

Harmonic serialism (HS) was first mentioned by Prince and Smolensky (1993)، but it was not pursued and was rejected in favor of the standard OT. HS was reopened by McCarthy (2000). In standard OT، GEN can make many changes at once when it produces a candidate. In HS، GEN is limited to making just one change at a time. HS’s candidate sets are less diverse than standard OT’s. In HS the path to optimality is longer and more gradual. The optimal candidate chosen by EVAL is the input to another pass through GEN، which generates a set of candidates that go to EVAL، and so on. By applying HS theory to Azarbayjan Turkish، we can see why making the specified change in each step is better than doing nothing at all and also we can follow steps of derivations from input to optimal output easily.