New Laryngeal Realism meets Polish voicing

Polish voicing data have long been in the centre of the phonological debate as they present a formidable puzzle which requires theoretical decisions concerning representation, computation, as well as the relation between phonology and phonetics. Recent findings in experimental phonetics further complicate the discussion in that now one of the central problems in phonological analyses of obstruent devoicing or voicing assimilations is whether the incompleteness of neutralisation should be formally expressed and how. As a result, it appears that approaches striving to accommodate the experimental results begin to resemble traditional Generative proposals in some respects, and thus nearly a full circle in the development of phonological theory has been made.