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La benuyransa és promesa a aquells qui són simples e suaus [Beatitude is promised to those who are simple and soft] Ramon Llull, Doctrina Pueril, 38 I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray The main purpose of this paper is to provide an Optimality-theoretical account of the phonological behavior of word-final palatal segments followed by a word beginning with a consonant in the different dialects of insular Catalan. In these varieties, internal palatal segments undergo a series of processes (depalatalization, gliding and splitting) that result in a simplification of the original consonant. Interdialectal variation is explained by means of different rankings of a set of faithfulness constraints and contextual markedness constraints on coda complexity and syllable structure. The analysis, framed in Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 1995), shows the suitability of some formal OT refinements, such as the Transderivationa