CONTENTS Preface 1. Government Phonology - an overview 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Original assumptions, aims and terms 1.2.1. Word structure 1.2.2. Licensing and government 1.2.3. Structure and strength of segments 1.3. Subsequent changes 1.3.1. Element amendments 1.3.2. Structural modifications 1.4. Empty nuclei in Government Phonology 1.4.1. Living on the edge 1.4.1.1. Word-final empty nuclei 1.4.1.2. Word-initial empty nuclei and magic 1.4.2. Magic in word-medial empty nuclei 1.5. Chapter summary 2. Consonant weakening phenomena 2.1. Introduction 2.2. CVCV 2.2.1. Lowenstamm (1996, 1999) 2.2.2. Scheer (1996, 2004): the Lateral Theory of Phonology (LTP) based on the Coda Mirror 2.2.3. Cyran (2003, 2010) - Complexity Scales and Licensing (CSL) 2.3. Consonant-weakening phenomena 2.3.1. Prehistoric Celtic lenitions 2.3.1.1. The history of lenitions in Celtic in ancient times 2.3.1.2. Further lenitions in Goidelic and Brittonic 2.3.1.3. Irish and its weakening nuclei 2.3.1.4. Irish lenitions in a mirror 2.3.1.5. Irish lenitions - CSL vs. LTP 2.3.2. Spanish lenition 2.3.2.1. Lenition of voiced stops in Modern Spanish 2.3.2.2. Spanish lenition in a rear view mirror - stops and fricatives 2.3.2.3. Proto-Romance vs. Celtic lenitions - a historical excursus 2.3.2.4. A CSL analysis of PR lenitions 2.3.2.5. An element-based approach to PR lenitions 2.3.2.6. A Polish intermezzo - Laryngeal Realism and Relativism (Cyran 2013) 2.3.2.7. Laryngeal Relativism and Western-Romance lenitions - logic and language (or the logic of language) 2.3.2.8. A Catalan puzzle 2.3.2.9. Proto-Celtic and Proto-Romance lenitions - conclusions and open questions 2.4. Chapter summary
