Under the [-irative] parameter, material preceding the antepenult remains unmetrified; it thus is unexplained why the lexical stress in konzumàtor fails to emerge when suffixation places it beyond the antepenult. An otherwise unnecessary rule is required to remove this stress. If the Macedonian suppression of lexical stresses falling outside the main stress foot represents the norm, then we have evidence for the conflation mechanism over the [+/-irative] parameter. Proponents of the [+/-irative] parameter have rightly pointed to the fact that very little positive evidence has so far been found that would justify the hypothetical metrification of the pretonic string that is canceled by conflation. For example, segmental rules sensitive to stress seemm to fail to discriminate among the syllables composing the pretonic stress. The case for conflation would be strengthened considerably if such a situation could be demonstrated empirically. Attaching the V-P1 node as a subtree under C-P1 predicts that rules streading a V-P1 feature from one vowel to another across an intervening consonant will block when the consonant is specified for the relevant feature as a secondary but not as a primary articulation. Herzallah treats this process as spreading [dorsal] to a higher vowel; a later rule enhances the resultant back vowel by adding a labial articulator.

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