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De-palatisation in Northern Romance (WAS: Northern Romance chronology and phonology)

This has been knocked back and forth a few times, and split amongst various mails, so I'm going to bring it all back together and summarise here in a table, to see if we're now both/all singing from the same hymn sheet. 


CL                               WRom / GRom           NRom


pj                                 (  tS  )  ^1                    pj  > pp
tj ts T ( #s )? ^2 kj ki ke ts tsi tse T Ti Te ( #s #si #se )? ^2 
nk                                nts                               nT

bj                                 (  dZ  )  ^1                   bj  >  bb
#dj                               #dZ                             #D ^3
dj                                 0                                  0
gj  gi  ge                      dZ  dZi  dZe               D  Di  De  ^3
#ga                              #dZa                            #Da  ^3

sj                                  z                                  s  ^4

mj                                (  m;    ndZ  )  ^1         mj  >  mm
nj J nj > nn gn J nj > nn 

rj                                  r                                   r
lj L lj > ll 
#j                                 #dZ                             #D  ^3


^1        WRom palatisation after NRom divergence
^2 Possible differentiation between initial and intervocalic positions? 
^3        NRom /D/ from earlier /d/
^4        [s_a]
The following de-palatisations were also suggested, but I've not found any examples of the corresponding palatisations arisng in WRom / GRom, so they are moot: 

--                                tS                                 t
--                                S                                  x
--                                Z                                  j



Alles klar?

-Pete