... set of features must be allowed to vary from language to language, and in principle is limited only by the number of rules in the phonology; the set of specifications must likewise be allowed to ... from language to language It is possible, however, to postulate the existence of a large, fixed, language- universal set of phonological features and a fixed upper 239 4.1 Complexity of autosegmental ... deleting boundaries and flattening syntactic structure, for example to prevent the phonology from assigning too many degrees of stress to a highly-embedded sentence The second is to reaxrange the...