UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 12 (2000)
Nasal harmony as prosody-driven agreement
KUNIYA NASUKAWA
Unlike vowel harmony, which operates between nuclear projections, nasal harmony
is usually considered to display string adjacency. This paper attempts to unify
these two types of assimilation by bringing nasal harmony into line with vowel
harmony. The conclusion is that all assimilatory processes are controlled by
higher-level prosodic structure rather than by segment-to-segment relations.
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