Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Why final obstruent devoicing is weakening -- Headship as melodic strength -- Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism -- Developmental shifts in phonological strength relations -- Strength relations and first language acquisition -- Modelling initial weakenings -- Against rhymal adjuncts: the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants -- Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in Strict CV -- Strength relations between consonants: a syllable-basedOT approach -- The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents -- Projection of licensing potency from a phonological expression -- Backmatter.