This paper examines the substance and formal nature of the Coda Condition within OT, making use of the concept of Alignment. It is argued that CodaCond, rather than disallowing elements from the coda, must be construed as an alignment constraint requiring consonants to occupy the left periphery of syllables. Besides possible ramifications regarding syllable contact and onset maximization, the paper shows that the definition of alignment must be separated from the constraint requiring prosodic units to have 'crisp' edges (i.e., defined by exclusive linking). The analysis of Lardil illustrates why double linking ('feature spreading'), rather than feature-insertion, is employed to fill in epenthetic structure: Since every articulator feature incurs a mark *Pl/Art, it is preferable to minimize place specifications by invoking the spreading option, instead of inserting new place features.
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