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In Harmonic Serialism (HS) grammar (McCarthy 2008, 2010), outputs are the result of multi-step derivations, and every derivational step is governed by the principles of Harmonic Improvement and Gradualness. This means that a derivational process can continue as long as these principles are observed at each derivational step. This paper investigates whether this type of derivational process provides an opportunity for an 'extra derivational' step which should not have appeared, but did ― which then results in the selection of a problematic output. This paper focuses on the intermediate form transcribed as H, which does not have a [place] feature and is derived from an input consonant. Possible outputs of H in HS are compared with actual outputs of Placeless /h/ in the typological analysis of word-medial clusters. This paper shows that HS allows the extra derivational step to occur, whereby non-existing forms in natural languages are incorrectly selected as optimal ones, and that this is due to the principles of Harmonic Improvement and Gradualness.
