I argue that this kind of nasal harmony comes about through a correspondence relation between Cs in a word rather than resulting from feature spreading. This proposal will be important in explaining the characteristics in (1) and also the neutrality of ‘prenasal’ NC complexes in the language. From a broader perspective, this approach has the potential to extend to other segmental harmonies that...

We investigate two formalizations of Optimality Theory, a successful paradigm in linguistics. We first give an order-theoretic counterpart for the data and process involved in candidate evaluation. Basically, we represent each constraint as a function that assigns every candidate a degree of violation. As for the second formalization, we define (after Samek-Lodovici and Prince) constraints as o...

James's Palace, on Wednesday, December 19, the Grand President (the Prince of Wales) taking the chair. The League, which is an organisation by means of which persons able to give only small sums can subscribe to the Hospitals, makes impartial appeal to public benevolence and disinterested philanthropy for the support of all voluntary Hospitals within its area of operation, and distributes not l...

Many of your readers will have read of the death of Mr. David Fuller and his entire family in the helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly on 16th July 1983. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery on 6th September 1982 and was due to take up his appointment on 1 st September 1983. As Professor Williamson recorded in the January/April 1983 issue of this Journal, his Chai...

In the late 1970s, trials were established in the northern interior of British Columbia to investigate alternative regeneration methods and the suitability of different forms of seedling stock on brush-prone sites. This report summarizes the 20 year results of four of the planting trials1 in the Prince George Forest Region, where the effects of stock type and size on tree survival and growth we...

The new orthopaedic hospital at Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire, the opening of which by the Prince of Wales was recorded in our issue of last July, is now in full working order. During the last twelve months most of the fine rooms have been completely transformed and many structural alterations made. These include spacious open-air wards, as shown in our illustration, to which the beds of the p...

In LI 31.2, J. Rubach proposes a modified version of OT that features derivations. In the present article I argue that, while some modification to the original formulation by Prince and Smolensky is needed, the correct one is not to re-introduce derivations, but rather to take fuller advantage of OT’s inherent parallelism. I propose that outputs must be related not only to inputs, but to other,...