| Abstract: | In this paper, I deal with the cases in which, when n and l abut, one is totally assimilated to the other. In general, the coronal n becomes l when it is preceded or followed by l. However, there are cases in which l becomes n when it is preceded by n. Thus, from a rule-based perspective it appears that two rules apply intrinsically in a mutually bleeding order, that is, in a reverse order in different environments. This difference depends on the prosodic word boundary across which the sequence arises. To account for this apparent paradox, I propose an Optimality-Theoretic analysis, which relies on stratum-specific faithfulness and position-specific faithfulness. |
