ABSTRACT
This chapter traces that morphologically governed assimilation differs from non-morphologically governed assimilation in the type of blocking phenomena that occurs. The special properties of morphologically governed assimilation are seen to follow from the form of the phonological representation such processes operate on. The proposed analysis of Regressive Harmony relates the transparency of the labial consonants to the fact that this harmony process is morphologically governed. It also predicts that there could not be a language of pseudo-Warlpiri which has two harmony processes identical to Warlpiri, but in which the labial consonants block the morphologically governed harmony and not the general harmony process. The analysis of Mixtec is one way of accounting for the blocking behavior of voiceless stops while maintaining the morpheme plane analysis of morphologically governed harmony. Warlpiri is an example of a language with a morphologically induced harmony process. Like Coeur d'Alene, Warlpiri also has a second, non-morphologically governed harmony process.
