I will refer to the schema in (14a [immagine]) as a "prosodic template", although the term "CV-skeleton" adopted by Halle and Vergnaud [Halle, M. and Vergnaud, J.-R., 1980, “Three Dimensional Phonology”, “Journal of Linguistic Research” 1, pp. 83-105] may be more evocative. Prosodic templates are composed solely of the features [segmental] and [syllabic], the appropriate values of these features being abbreviated by C and V. [...] It is proposed here that the prosodic template corresponds to the segmental level in more familiar autosegmental analyses. Thus, the segmental level will contain only the features [segmental] and [syllabic], and all other features will be autosegmental.
- McCarthy (2004), a pag.244-245