Nasal harmony in functional phonology

This paper will show that a theory of phonology that distinguishes between articulatory and perceptual representations and processes (Boersma 1998) accounts for the typological facts of nasal harmony more succinctly and with fewer assumptions for innate substantive devices, than theories that maintain a single kind of phonological features and a single phonological grammar, like the theories applied to nasal harmony by Piggott (1992), Piggott & Van der Hulst (1997), and Walker (1998).

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