ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the process of final lax vowel deletion must apply before t-palatalization. It also argues that l-palatalization must apply before both the deletion of final lax vowels and t-palatalization. The chapter looks at a few examples that appear to be exceptions to the process of t-palatalization. The crucial evidence involves the interaction of palatalization and the process by which final lax vowels are deleted. The development of palatalization in Odawa is not the only evidence which would lead one to propose an apparent case of rule splitting. It seems that the situation in Cree, a central Algonquian language which is very closely related to the Ojibwa group of dialects, also provides some support for the notion of rule splitting. In J. D. Kaye and Glyne L. Piggott evidence for the cyclical nature of t-palatalization is advanced.
