Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Tabula gratulatoria xviii
5. I. The Syllable and Glides
6. Conditions on front mid-vowel gliding in Spanish 3
7. The syllabic position of glides in Spanish: insights from Pasiego vowel harmony 29
8. Gliding ghosts or ghostly glides, and does it matter which? 51
9. II. The Syllable – Onset, Coda, and Cross Linguistic Aspects
10. On onset clusters in Spanish: voiced obstruent underspecification and /f/ 107
11. Syllable merger in Chicano Spanish: a constraint-based analysis 139
12. The challenge of lexically empty onsets in first language acquisition of Spanish and German 187
13. The acquisition order of liquids in Spanish complex onsets 219
14. III. The Syllable and the Notions of Stress and Weight
15. Spanish vocalic epenthesis: the phonetics of sonority and the mora 245
16. The phonological weight of Spanish syllables 271
17. Syllable weight, stress, and the neutralization of vowel length in Batticaloa Creole Portuguese 315
18. Subject index 333
19. Index of constraints 339