This paper looks at three types of constraints employed throughout the Optimality Theoretic literature that cannot be translated in to the 1The computation time for an Optimality Theoretic derivation within the implementation of Albro (1998) increases exponentially with the number of tiers. The same is true for the implementation described in<cite> Eisner (1997a)</cite> , although a proposal is given there for a method that might improve the situation.