Wilson (2004, 2006) claims that harmony is myopic: in unbounded spreading processes, the viability of local spreading does not depend on the viability of complete harmony. Walker (2010), however, claims that Central Veneto metaphony represents nonmyopic harmony: height harmony affects an unstressed penult only if the stressed antepenult is a suitable target for spreading.
On the basis of Central Veneto, Walker (2010) argues in favor of parallel evaluation in Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky 2004) and against versions of OT with serial evaluation. The argument against serial evaluation relies on a single locality constraint that is insensitive to the quality of skipped vowels. In this squib, I show that using quality-sensitive locality permits an analysis of Central Veneto in Harmonic Serialism (HS) (McCarthy 2000, 2007), which has a number of typological advantages over parallel OT with respect to harmony...