Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Prelude, theme and riffs vii
4. English /au/ 1
5. The internal TR clusters of Acadian French 17
6. Hocus bogus? 33
7. A unifying explanation of the Great Vowel Shift, Canadian Raising and Southern Monophthonging 63
8. Deconstructing tongue root harmony systems 73
9. Underlying representations and Bantu segmental phonology 101
10. Uniqueness in element signatures 117
11. Charting the vowel space 133
12. The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing 145
13. Asymmetric variation 163
14. The beginning of the word 189
15. On the diachronic origin of Nivkh height restrictions 201
16. Segmental loss and phonological representation 215
17. The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign 231
18. English stress is binary and lexical 263
19. Bogus clusters and lenition in Tuscan Italian 277
20. The prosodic status of glides in Anaañ reduplication 297
21. Index 321