ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some proposals for the analysis of segmental transparency. The first of the alternative analyses is one calling on the gapped configuration. The second alternative is the important representationally-driven account of nasal harmony proposed by Piggott, where different types of nasal harmony are posited. Finally, the obviation of the gapped representation in the sympathy-based account offers an argument against further alternatives producing effects similar to gapping, such as violable feature expression or embedding of feature domains, which require parochial constraints to obtain segmental transparency. In nasal spreading contexts, NOGAP conflicts with the nasalized segment constraints. To restrict the variable dependency for nasal, Piggott suggests that the difference in segment structure is parametrically determined, with nasal as a dependent of the Soft Palate as the unmarked option.
