Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface 15
5. Phonological phrasing in Spanish 39
6. Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity 62
7. Depalatalization in Spanish revisited 74
8. Upstepping vowel height 99
9. The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects 146
10. Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure 172
11. Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish 205
12. The Spanish stress window 239
13. Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation 278
14. Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish 312
15. A paradigm account of Spanish number 339
16. Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties 358
17. Optimality Theory and language change in Spanish 378
18. Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish 399
19. The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation 424
20. Sonority scales and syllable structure 447
21. Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress 470
22. Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish 497
23. Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish 525
24. Subject index 549
25. Index of constraints 559