Voice assimilation in Hungarian: the hitches

Voice assimilation is a much discussed  issue recently.  The
topics involved are whether  the feature voiced is privative
or equipollent and whether the  process can be described  by
making reference to  prosodic structure or by specifying the
environment  linearly.  By  analysing voice  assimilation in
Hungarian, I attempt to   show that a privative  feature  is
capable of doing the job  -- though not unproblematically --
and  that  the environment  is much  more  easy  to describe
simply  by making reference to  the  next segment(s) than by
identifying the position  of  the target and the  trigger by
traditional syllabic constituents, like onset and coda.  The
last section of  the paper treats three  segments, [v h  j],
the ambivalent   behaviour  of  which raises  a    number of
problems to be solved.   The aim is not  so much  to provide
solutions  to each  problematic  detail,  but to gather  the
points that have to be sorted out.