Future research

Replacing the former [L] element with a merged nasal-voice element raises a number of general issues that merit further research.

First, how is low tone to be represented in this model? In fact the overall approach of this thesis dovetails with a recent analysis of tone and intonation, in which low pitch is the phonetic manifestation not of an independent melodic category but of a prosodic boundary unassociated to high tone (Cabrera-Abreu in press).

Second, if we are justified in merging nasal and voice, we are naturally led to consider whether other traditionally recognised melodic distinctions can be eliminated. There have been several recent proposals to extend the element-reducing programme in various ways, for example by merging aspiration with noise and coronality with openness (van der Hulst 1995, Marten 1996, Charette & Goksel 1998, Kula & Marten 1998, Rennison 1999). The conceptual advantages of this approach are clear. However, the empirical consequences have yet to be fully worked out.

Third, on the basis of the clear phonological affinity between voice and nasality, we are prompted to reconsider whether the two properties are really as phonetically disparate as traditionally supposed. This is just the sort o f reassessment that was explicitly encouraged in Jakobson, Fant & Halle (1952) (where lip rounding and pharyngealisation, for example, are partially subsumed under the feature [flat]). It is for future research to determine whether there exists some invariant acoustic signature that is common to nasality and voicing.

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