Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Phonology -- Contrastiveness: The basis of identity avoidance -- Rhyme as phonological multidominance -- Babbling, intrinsic input and the statistics of identical transvocalic consonants in English monosyllables: Echoes of the Big Bang? -- Identity avoidance in the onset -- Part II Morpho-Syntax -- Unifying minimality and the OCP: Local anti-identity as economy -- Semantic versus syntactic agreement in anaphora: The role of identity avoidance -- Part III Syntax -- Exploring the limitations of identity effects in syntax -- Constraining Doubling -- Recoverability of deletion -- On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory -- Part IV General -- Linguistic and non-linguistic identity effects: Same or different? -- On the biological origins of linguistic identity -- Language index -- Subject index