Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction ix
5. Part I First and second language acquisition
6. Devil or angel in the details? 3
7. Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
8. Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
9. Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
10. Part II Prosody
11. A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
12. Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
13. Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
14. Part III Segments
15. Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
16. The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
17. The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
18. Part IV Methodology
19. Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
20. Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
21. Categories and gradience in intonation 259
22. Subject Index 285