Studies in African Linguistics, Full issue (Vol. 6, No. 2)

in initial position it forms a separate syllable, is tone-bearing, and hence [+sonorant]:p-ju-ki m-pa o-ku-ba ,( the) bee' 'give me' 'rain' This same piece ot evidence argues against the validity of the artificial syllabification analysis presented earlier.A more recent proposal is that of Campe11 [1974] wherein he argues that complex units, e.g., affricates, labialized and palatalized consonants, and, I assume, prenasalized consonants as well, be described by means of multi-columned matr.ices,e.g., tone +corConstraints on what features can co-occur will be stated as universal redundancy or marking constraints although exactly how this is to be accomplished is still unclear.Campbell notes that complex symbols do not necessarily refer to non-unit segments since they are treated as unit segments in many languages.Rules may refer to either or both columns of matrices vith no restrictions.Amy Myers [1974] opts for a "vector feature", representing a changing, vectoring value over the duration of the segment, to account

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