ABSTRACT
There are two things to note about the hierarchy in (4). First, the constraints are relative to different natural classes of segments, not necessarily to different features. Therefore, the description in the square brackets refers to a segment class, not a feature. This simply means that if there are two constraints, *MORA[STOP] and *MORA[VOICEDSTOP], a segment that is both voiced and a stop violates only the constraint specific to the class of voiced stops, not the constraint specific to plain stops. Second, this hierarchy is similar in nature to Prince and Smolensky's (1993) peak and margin hierarchies. In fact, it seems to be intermediate between the two. The peak hierarchy is relevant to prosodic ally prominent positions-syllable peaks, while the margin hierarchy is relevant to prosodieally less prominent positions-syllable margins. Moraic segments are in peak position when nuclear, and margin position when non-nuclear.
