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0. Introduction Phonological representations include sequences of featural specifications, pq. Two properties can be observed about such sequences: (i) for a sequence pq to be of significance for the phonology of a language, p must be perceptibly different than q; (ii) to produce a sequence pq, the articulators must start in the configuration for p and then change into the configuration for q. ...