COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL DIALECTO LOGY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- Purpose -- Ibero-Romance voicing -- Palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/ in Ibero-Romance -- Approaching the problems -- Inherent limitations -- Theoretical concerns -- The role of modern comparative evidence -- Plan of this study -- CHAPTER 2. SUBSTRATUM -- Background -- Two substratum hypotheses reviewed -- Celtic Substratum: Voicing in Western Romance -- Critique -- Conclusion -- Basque Substratum: Absence of Voicing in the West-Central Pyrenees -- Critique -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3. CRUCIAL INGREDIENTS: INTERVOCALIC VOICING IN LATIN, ASSIMILATION AT WORD BOUNDARIES -- Background -- Approaching the evidence -- Some modern parallels -- Interpreting spelling errors -- Objections -- Sporadic misspelling -- Lack of voicing in Italy, Rumania, and the Pyrenees -- From assimilation in Latin to rafforzamento sintattico -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. VOICING IN WESTERN ROMANCE -- Introduction -- The problem -- Structure-based accounts -- Martinet's push chains -- Weinrich's Verständigungsprinzip der Sprache -- Hall 1975 and Bichakjian 1977 -- Below La Spezia - Rimini -- Northeast Corsican: Sisco -- Campidanese Sardinian -- Considering rafforzamento sintattico -- Canary Island Spanish -- Phases in the development -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5. PALATALIZATION OF WORD-INITIAL /l/ AND /n/ IN IBERO-ROMANCE -- Introduction -- Word-internal developments in Catalan, Castilian, and Portugue -- Initial sonorants in Catalan, Castilian, and Portuguese -- More extensive palatalization of initials: Leonese and Asturian -- Martinet's hypothesis -- Internal /ll/ and initial /l/ in two varieties of Italo-Romance -- Northwestern Tuscany (Garfagnana) -- Corsica -- Origin of initial strengthening.

"Flower" in Naples -- Considering rafforzamento sintattico again -- Diachroniedevelopments in the Garfagnana and Corsica -- Positing Ibero-Romance developments -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6. LOOSE ENDS: NON-VOICING IN RUMANIA AND THE DIALECTS OF THE PYRENEES, IRREGULAR VOICING IN ITALIAN -- The two problems -- Irregular voicing in Italian -- Homogeneous regularity (Neogrammarian positions) -- Ordered heterogeneity (Variationist positions) -- 1980 and after -- Izzo's findings -- Objections to the Northern Borrowing Hypothesis -- Variation and rule loss (Wanner and Cravens) -- Rule replacement (Giannelli & Savoia) -- The modem case of Buti (Franceschini) -- Rumanian and the dialects of the West-Central Pyrenee -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF NAMES.