Preface -- Curriculum vitae -- Testimonials -- Publications -- Instead of an introduction -- 1 General issues -- 1.1. Acquisition -- Meno's paradox and the acquisition of grammar -- On the logical order of development in acquiring prosodic structure -- 1.2. Computation -- On the computability of certain derivations in Government Phonology -- 1.3. The organisation of grammar -- Structure paradoxes in phonology -- An x-bar theory of Government Phonology -- 1.4. Philosophy of science and metatheory -- Meta-phonological speculations -- Metatheoretical problems in phonology with Occam's Razor and non-ad-hoc-ness -- 2 Elements: segmental structure and processes -- Eerati tone: towards a tonal dialectology of Emakhuwa -- Government Phonology and the vowel harmonies of Natal Portuguese and Yoruba -- Palatalisation in Brazilian Portuguese -- Two notes on laryngeal licensing -- On spirantisation and affricates -- 3 Structure -- 3.1. Branching onsets -- Branching onsets in Polish -- Are there branching onsets in Modern Icelandic? -- Remarks on mutæ cum liquidā and branching onsets -- Defective syllables: the other story of Italian sC(C)-sequences -- 3.2. "Codas" -- Remarks on prenominal liaison consonants in French -- The phonotactics of a "Prince" language: a case study -- On the syllabification of right-edge consonants - evidence from Ahtna (Athapaskan) -- Licensing constraint to let -- 3.3. Empty categories -- Empty and pseudo-empty categories -- Unlicensed domain-final empty nuclei in Korean -- Unreleasing: the case of neutralisation in Korean -- 3.4. "Syllabic consonants" -- /r/ syllabicity: Polish versus Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian -- The syllabic nasal in Japanese -- 3.5. Templates and morphology -- Template and morphology in Khalkha Mongolian - and beyond? -- A non-derivational analysis of the so-called "diminutive retroflex suffixation".

Why Arabic guttural assimilation is not a phonological process -- 5.6. Metrical structure -- On a certain notion of "occurrence": the source of metrical structure, and of much more -- References -- Subject index -- Language index -- Names index -- Contributors.