    Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization  Linda
Lombardi, University of Massachusetts - Amherst   A system of
three laryngeal features, called (voice), (aspiration), and
(glottalization), is argued to be the correct representation of
laryngeal distinctions in consonants, based on evidence from
possible consonant systems and phonological rules. These
features are shown to be privative or single-valued. It is shown
that the process of voicing assimilation must be analyzed
without use of a feature (-voice), as a combination of
neutralization and spread. Neutralization and spreading
involving aspiration and glottalization are also analyzed.
Neutralization is argued to be a result of a positive well-
formedness constraint, the Laryngeal Constraint: a Laryngeal
node is only licensed in the configuration in (i).(DIAGRAM,
TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)In any other position
the violation of well-formedness will be repaired by delinking
the node.^ In many languages word-internal syllable-final con