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On the development of soft labials...95(49) a. initial clusters[f‚]o³ek [‚]o³ek[kf‚]at [k‚]at[m­]asto [­]astob. internal clusterso[f‚]arapara[f‚]azdro[vó]ew g³o[vó]eru[m­]anekpa[m­]êtam‘violet’‘flower’‘city’o[‚]arapara[‚]azdro[ó]ew g³o[ó]eru[­]anekpa[­]êtam[vó]adro[gvó]azdy[m­]ód‘victim’‘parish’‘health’‘in the head’‘camomile’‘I remember’[ó]adro[gó]azdy[­]ód‘bucket’‘stars’‘honey’Crucially, it is always the labial part of the sequence that disappears, nomatter whether there are two or three consonants in the cluster. In fact,the loss of the labial in such sequences is predicted by the Coda Mirror.In every case the labial appears before a governed nucleus, which is a typicallenition context. Moreover, the disappearance of the labial consonantcan only be explained if both the labial and the glide are consideredto be separate segments.In the following section we shall focus our discussion on the Frenchevolution from Latin [j]. This phenomenon, which is nearly a copy of thesituation described above, confirms our findings.4.5. Yod fortition in Gallo-RomanceIn the present section we shall present the evolution of labial + yod sequencesin Gallo-Romance which supports the analysis applied to similarcases in the Kurp dialect offered in the previous section. It will be demonstratedthat, similarly to the Kurp case, yod occurs in the strong position,hence evolves, while the labial appears in a weak position anddisappears.Scheer and Ségéral (2001) analysing the evolution of /Cj/ sequencesin Gallo-Romance set two major objectives. They aspire to showthat, despite evident diversity, the evolution of the /Cj/ sequences isa coherent process. Moreover, they claim that the phenomenon is context-dependent,that is, it depends on the position the segments occupyin the syllable structure. In short, the evolution of /j/ does not result fromthe melodic interactions. Since we are searching for similarities with the