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80 The phonological nature of the beginning of the wordin mind that the optimal way to describe the behaviour of syllabic consonantsin Slavic languages (as well as in Germanic, as we will see in ChapterThree) is to represent them as left-branching structures (33a), wewould like to slightly modify Scheer’s (2004) right-branching solutionto trapped consonants. Consider again the forms under (31) repeatedin (37) for convenience.(37)a.roze+[drg]aæroze+[brn]¹æ ??ode+[bZm’]ieæode+[gZm’]ieæb.roz+[trf]oniæz+[trf]o¿yæroz+[bZm’]ieæod+[kSt]usiæroz+[krf]awiæ‘become vibrating’‘flounder’‘sound back’‘rumble back’‘squander’‘become fearful’‘sound’‘cough up’‘cause to bleed’The forms in (37a) confirm the right-branching character of trapped consonantswhich spread to the following nucleus and in this way properlygovern the first nuclear position. In consequence, the prefix vowel is vocalised(38a). On the other hand, in order to explain the behaviour of theprefix vowel in the forms under (37b), one has to resort to domain structure.However, there is another possibility, namely, if a nuclear positioninvaded by a trapped consonant is allowed to dispense Proper Government,it should in principle also sponsor Infrasegmental Government(38b). 26(38) a. PG(C V) C V 1C| | |V 2|C|V 3CV 4C|V 5|C|V 6|rozedPrPgat¡‚P26The representation in (38b) is actually mentioned in Scheer (2004). The author,however, abandons it indicating that in Czech not only TR clusters start such roots(and hence contract IG) but also /mr/ clusters, e.g. od mrštit ‘reject’. Recall the discussionfrom section 2.2 which predicts the IG relations for sequences of this type.