ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses briefly some of the residual problems. Some of the problems may be considered specific to an adequate description of Odawa, while others appear to be problems of linguistic theory, though it is not an easy task to make and sustain such distinctions. The chapter considers a few problems of theoretical importance. These problems are of direct relevance to the treatment of exceptions in generative phonology. The problem with the application of the rule of nasal assimilation arises in relation to strings which are the outputs of the rule of vowel reduction-cum-syncope. However, there are instances in which the rule of nasal assimilation apples optionally to strings which are the outputs of rule, vowel reduction, and other instances in which it appears to apply obligatorily. Generative phonologists have hardly ignored the question of exceptional behaviour in language.
