Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Theoretical Model -- Chapter 3. Case Studies -- Chapter 4. On Coronalization and Affrication in -- Palatalization Processes: An Inquiry Into the Nature of a Sound -- Change -- Chapter 5. Markedness, Neutral Vowels and Harmony -- processes -- Conclusions: Afterthoughts on Optimality -- Theory -- Backmatter