Phonological ganging is a type of cumulativity in constraint interaction where one strong constraint C1 can be overtaken by two weaker constraints C2 and C3 together but not by C2 or C3 independently (eg, Jäger and Rosenbach 2006). In strict-ranking Optimality Theory (OT), phonological ganging is achieved via (local) constraint conjunction (eg, Smolensky 1993, 2006; Bakoviü 2000; Ito and Mester 2003; cf. Crowhurst and Hewitt 1997). The tableau in (1) illustrates the ganging case in which candidate (a) loses because it violates both C2 and C3, thus incurring a violation of the highlyranked conjunction, C2&C3.