Introduction

The late 1980s and early 1990s brought a substantial shift in the views on the role of structures and derivations in phonology. The 1985 and 1990 papers by Kaye, Lowenstamm and Vergnaud postulated a static view that underlined the role of the lexicon and the structural relations between the segments of phonological representations. The aim of this paper is to present the main tenets of the continuation of the approach proposed in the above-mentioned works: CVCV Phonology presented in Scheer (1998, 2004). The paper is structured as follows: section 2 is devoted to the introduction of the syllabic constituent structure in CVCV. Section 3 is a presentation of the Empty Category Principle (ECP), which constitutes the very essence of the approach in question. The aim of section 4 is to present a brief typology of phonological processes within CVCV, with emphasis on their motivation. Section 5 gives a short summary of the facts presented in this paper.