The representation of voicing. A unified analysis of languages with two obstruent series as “aspirating” systems

Abstract

Kaye (1992a: 295-296) distinguishes a weaker and a stronger version of the Uniformity Principle: "sequences of contiguous positions that are in a governing relation and contain the same phonological material have the same constituent structure" within a given language vs. in all languages. 10 Ironically, the term "atomic" is still used as a synonym for indivisible, in spite of the fact that we have known for a while that atoms are actually reducible to subatomic particles. In this sense, phonological segments are, in fact, atomic.