ABSTRACT
Now the stop component of /c/ is not phonetically identical with t. It is, instead, homorganic with the fricative component of the affricate. There is nothing to prevent us from setting up /t/ as the first component of /c/ in phonological representations, however, and then accounting for the retracted articulation of this stop in phonetic forms by a low-level rule of assimilation. In this way, the treatment of jtacj sequences by Schwa Deletion IV is easily assimilated to the other cases of deletion which have been discussed above.
