2 Theories of the syllable

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. 1 Introducing the volume 1
7. Part I: General Issues
8. 2 Theories of the syllable 13
9. 3 Morpheme structure constraints and the phonotactics of Dutch 53
10. 4 Syllables in Danish 69
11. 5 The syllable in Hindi 93
12. Part II: Government Phonology
13. 6 Head-Driven Phonology 113
14. 7 The syllable in German: Exploring an alternative 169
15. 8 Consonant clusters and governing relations: Polish initial consonant sequences 219
16. 9 Hungarian syllable structure: Arguments for/against complex constituents 249
17. 10 The Latin syllable 285
18. 11 Syllables in Western Koromfe 311
19. Part III: Moraic Phonology
20. 12 The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology 349
21. 13 Kihehe syllable structure 417
22. 14 Dschang syllable structure 447
23. 15 The syllable in Chinese 477
24. 16 The syllable and syllabification in Modern Spoken Arabic (Ṣan^cānī and Cairene) 501
25. 17 The Romansch syllable 527
26. Part IV: Optimality Theory
27. 18 Syllables and phonotactics in Irish 551
28. 19 A preliminary account of some aspects of Leurbost Gaelic syllable structure 577
29. 20 Quantity in Norwegian syllable structure 631
30. Part V: Other approaches
31. 21 A syllable-level feature in Finnish 651
32. 22 Sievers’ Law in Vedic 673
33. Indexes
34. Index of authors 753
35. Index of languages 763
36. Index of subjects 767
37. 789-790 789