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Re: Consonant clusters

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Monday, July 8, 2002, 17:03
> There is what has been called on the list the "Sonority Contour Principle" or > something like that.
Maybe you mean Sonority Scale ;), which is what you describe. There is also the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) which specifies that there cannot be at a given tier two identical adjacent units : they must merge together. Julien.