Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part 1: Segments and processes
5. Detection of liaison consonants in speech processing in French 3
6. Patterns of VCV coarticulatory direction according to the DAC model 25
7. The stability of phonological features within and across segments 41
8. Pre- and postaspirated stops in Andalusian Spanish 67
9. Part 2: Prosodic structure
10. Variation in the intonation of extra-sentential elements 85
11. Voicing-dependent cluster simplification asymmetries in Spanish and French 109
12. The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance 131
13. Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish 155
14. Part 3: Acquisition of segmental contrasts and prosody
15. On the effect of (morpho)phonological complexity in the early acquisition of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese 179
16. The perception of lexical stress patterns by Spanish and Catalan infants 199
17. Logistic regression modelling for first and second language perception data 219
18. Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languages 237
19. Subject Index 259