ABSTRACT
Homorganic glides, in procedural terms, arise as a result of spreading the place of articulation from a high vowel to the onset of the following syllable in response to preventing vowel hiatus. As will be shown in the Optimality-Theoretic approach in this chapter, the linking of a high vowel to a following onset best-satisfies ONSET and other conflicting constraints. There are, of course, many ways to satisfy ONSET so whatever constraint interaction accounts for homorganic glides must be ranked with respect to other constraints.
