Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Between phonetics and phonology
5. Schwa in American English V+/r/ sequences 15
6. Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish 35
7. Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish? 51
8. Cues to contrastive focus in Romanian 71
9. The phonetics of sentence-initial topic and focus in adult and child Dutch 91
10. Part II. Segmental and prosodic interactions
11. Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages 109
12. Rhythmic and prosodic contrast in Venetan and Sicilian Italian 137
13. Stem boundary and stress effects on syllabification in Spanish 159
14. Prosodic and segmental effects on vowel intrusion duration in Spanish /rC/ clusters 181
15. Part III. Interactions between segments and features
16. Acoustic and aerodynamic factors in the interaction of features 205
17. Fixed and variable properties of the palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese 235
18. Post-tonic vowel harmony in some dialects of Central Italy 247
19. Vowel reduction and vowel harmony in Eastern Catalan loanword phonology 267
20. Index of Subjects and Languages 287