Nasal harmony in functional phonology

   Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam
   January 30, 1999

Nasal harmony and its typologies can be accounted for without Piggott's (1992)
ad-hoc principles like 'not limited to sonorants' and
'the natural class of non-approximant consonants',
or Walker's (1998) ranked structural constraints like *NasObsStop
and the derivational "sympathy" device,
if our theory of phonology distinguishes between articulatory and
perceptual representations.