Table of contents - detail -- 1 Editorial note: two volumes -- 2 Foreword -- 3 How to use this book -- 4 Conventions used in this book -- Part One: What is CVCV? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Open versus closed syllables in CVCV -- 3. A unified theory of vowel - zero alternations -- 4. Alternating vowels are present in the lexicon -- 5. The beginning of the word: "#" = CV -- 6. The Coda Mirror -- 7. Consequences of the Coda Mirror: no confusion between Government and Licensing anymore -- 8. A syntax of phonology -- 9. Lateral relations are head-final: length in phonology -- 10. Syllabic and trapped consonants in CVCV -- Part Two: Why CVCV ? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principles of argumentation I: disjunctive contexts -- 3. Principles of argumentation II: representations and their function -- 4. Principles of argumentation III: generality of processes -- 5. Principles of argumentation IV: a better solution for extrasyllabicity than extrasyllabicity -- 6. Argument 1. Languages without initial restrictions -- 7. Argument 2. What you get is NOT what you see: Tina Turner was wrong -- 8. Argument 3. Description vs. explanation of restrictions on word-initial consonant clusters -- 9. Argument 4. Lower: empty Nuclei and regressive internuclear relations have been used for over 30 years in the analysis of Slavic vowel-zero alternations -- 10. Argument 5. The life of "yers" outside of Slavic and in locations where vowels do not alternate with zero -- 11. Argument 6. Unified representations for the syllable and stress -- 12. Argument 7. Licensing power of final empty Nuclei parameterised: paired vs. impaired behaviour of internal and final Codas -- 13. Argument 8. The Coda Mirror -- 14. Argument 9. News from the yer context: what happens in Codas and before an unpronounced alternating vowel.

15. Argument 10. What sonorants do in Codas: a unified theory of melodic reaction on positional plight -- General Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1. List of parameters and their translation into CVCV and other theories -- 2. Closed Syllable Shortening vs. diminutive lengthening in Czech -- 3. Polish two-membered word-initial consonant clusters -- 4. A short guide to 1990 Government Phonology -- References -- Subject Index -- Language Index.