The Subset Principle in phonology: why the tabula can't be rasaThe authors are indebted to Madelyn Kissock, Ida Toivonen, Afton Lewis and two anonymous JL referees for comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Our research was supported in part through the VRQ funded project Le traitement de langue naturelle and the SSHRC-funded Asymmetry Project (both to Anna Maria disciullo, PI), as well as several grants to the authors from Concordia University