z/, revealing the underlying morphological structure.</p>
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<h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="optimality-theory-implementation">4. Optimality Theory Implementation</h3>
<p>While FSTs are traditionally associated with rule-based phonology, they can also be used to implement constraint-based approaches like Optimality Theory (OT) <span class="citation" data-cites="Prince1993">(<a href="#ref-Prince1993" role="doc-biblioref"><strong>Prin