ABSTRACT
Hyman (1975:133) reviews older generative claims regarding economy of feature counting as one criterion. For example, Harms (1966) argued that in some languages with aspirates, it could be more economical to establish clusters of consonant plus /bI, while in other cases, it could be more economical to establish aspirated consonants: IChI vs. ICh/. Harms takes this argument to an extreme, claiming that speakers take into account the proportion of lexical items in determining their phonological representations in order to create the most economical representations.
