linguae & litterae -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Preface -- References -- Introduction: Syllable and word languages -- 1 Rhythm-based classifications -- 1.1 Syllable-timed vs. stress-timed languages ("Isochrony Hypothesis") -- 1.2 Rhythm class hypothesis -- 2 The phonological typology of syllable and word languages -- 3 Typological parameters -- 4 Research areas -- 5 Summaries of the contributions in this volume -- Part 1: Theoretical issues -- Part 2: Diachronic approaches -- Part 3: Synchronic approaches (Germanic languages) -- Part 4: Synchronic approaches (Romance languages) -- References -- Part 1: Theoretical issues -- The typology of syllable and word languages and Swedish phonological structure -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1 Prosodic Phonology -- 2.2 The phonological word -- 2.3 Language-particular and cross-linguistic comparability of phonological words -- 2.4 One or several SL/WL continua -- 2.5 Indirect reference to morphosyntax -- 2.6 Domain of phonotactic constraints -- 2.7 Direction of processing in the phonological component and configurative function -- 2.8 Syllabification -- 2.9 Diagnostics for syllable and word languages -- 3 Canonical forms of native Swedish morphemes -- 4 The SL/WL criteria applied to Swedish -- 4.1 Word stress, tonal accent -- 4.2 Syllable structure in different positions in the word -- 4.3 Geminate vs. ambisyllabic consonants -- 4.4 Word-external vs. word-internal sandhi -- 4.5 Vowel inventories in accented vs. unaccented position -- 4.6 Vowel elision and consonant insertions -- 4.7 Word-related phonological processes -- 5 Syllabification -- 6 Recovery of grammatical boundaries by phonological means -- 6.1 Clues from morpheme structure -- 6.2 Clues from the outputs of rule applications.

7 Swedish and SL/WL typology: Summary and final remarks -- 7.1 Descriptive/typological considerations -- 7.2 A concluding theoretical note -- References -- Syllable complexity in the diachrony of Romance languages: A center vs. periphery view and the syllable vs. word rhythm paradigm -- 1 Introductory remarks -- 2 Tendencies in Latin and Romance languages: Syllabic reduction vs. persistence of shell complexity -- 2.1 Syllabic reduction -- 2.2 Persistence of complex syllable types -- 3 A center vs. periphery view on syllable type complexity in Romance languages -- 3.1 Syllable shell complexity as a typological parameter in Romance languages -- 3.2 Complexity: central vs. peripheral -- 4 Different ways of coping with syllable shell complexity -- References -- Pervasive syllables and phonological unity in words -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A syllable or a word language? -- 2.1 Korean -- 2.2 Turkish -- 2.2.1 Vowel harmony and the phonological word in Turkish -- 2.2.2 Minimal word size and category-specific phonology -- 3 Pertinacity of syllables: Emergent segments via syllable repair -- 3.1 Vowel hiatus -- 3.1.1 Vowel assimilation: A syllabically conditioned (but word-sensitive) process -- 3.2 (In)Tolerance for consonant clusters and word edge asymmetries -- 3.2.1 Syllabically conditioned perceptual epenthesis -- 4 Syllables and beyond: Phonology for word-segmentation -- 5 Pervasive syllables in morphological and prosodic change -- 6 Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Monosyllabic Lengthening in German and its relation to the syllable vs. word language typology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Monosyllabic Lengthening in Zurich German -- 2.1 Moraic theory (Hayes 1989) -- 2.2 MSL in Zurich German: Quantity contrasts and word minimality -- 3 More on Monosyllabic Lengthening in High German varieties -- 3.1 Monosyllabic Lengthening or paradigm levelling?.

3.2 A brief synopsis of High German quantity developments -- 4 Doing typology: In search of correlations and implications -- 5 Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Vowel and consonant epentheses in the history of German from the typological perspective of syllable and word languages -- 1 Syllable and word as typologically relevant phonological domains -- 2 Syllable and word language as opposite typological prototypes -- 3 Vowel epentheses in Old and Early New High German -- 3.1 The Old High German cluster breakers -- 3.2 The Early New High German trochee makers -- 4 Consonant epentheses in Old and Early New High German -- 4.1 The Old High German hiatus breakers -- 4.2 The Early New High German word edge strengtheners -- 4.3 The glottal stop and h as word edge markers in contemporary German -- 5 Summary -- References -- Part 2: Diachronic approaches -- Scandinavian word phonology: Evidence for a typological cycle -- 1 The Germanic languages: Some general structural patterns and drift phenomena -- 2 Intervening factors -- 3 Splitting up Proto-Germanic: Mainly a case of vowel change? -- 4 On the phonotactics and word structure of Proto-Germanic and Ancient Nordic -- 5 West Scandinavian: A typological change from a predominantlysyllable language to a word language -- 6 East Scandinavian: Evidence of a typological cycle and counter-drift -- 6.1 The consequences of retroflex consonants in unstressed syllables -- 6.2 The rise of new enclitic inflections: A starting point for a new typological cycle -- 6.3 Language contact: A typological counter-drift towards a more syllable-relatedlanguage -- 6.4 Language cultivation: Introducing spelling pronunciation in modern Swedish -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Syllable- and word-related developments in earlier Indo-Iranian -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The typological parameters.

1.2 The older Indo-Iranian languages and their attestation -- 1.3 Overview of the phonological systems -- 1.4 Accent and stress -- 2 Phonological inventories and their relation to words and syllables -- 3 Syllable structure -- 3.1 Clusters and shell complexity -- 3.1.1 Onset clusters -- 3.1.2 Coda clusters -- 3.1.3 Conclusion -- 3.2 Sonority Hierarchy -- 3.3 Vowel epenthesis and loss -- 3.4 Consonantal processes -- 4 Sandhi and resyllabification -- 5 General conclusions -- References -- From Christel to Christina, from Klaus toNico: A diachronic study of German first names (1945-2010) and their shift towards the syllable language type -- 1 German proper names and their changing structures -- 2 German first names and their historical development -- 3 Linguistic comparison of first names and common nouns since 1945 -- 3.1 Number of syllables -- 3.2 Accent positions -- 3.3 Consonant clusters -- 3.4 Hiatuses -- 3.5 Final schwa -- 3.6 Full vowels in unstressed positions -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part 3: Synchronic approaches (Germanic languages) -- Reduction and deletion of glottal stops and geminates at phonological word boundaries in German compounds: Effects of word frequency and accentuation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and methods -- 2.1 Speech material -- 2.2 Acoustic analysis and segmentation -- 2.3 Statistic analysis -- 2.4 Frequency counts -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Glottal stop and glottalization -- 3.1.1 Combined realization categories -- 3.1.1.1 Frequency -- 3.1.1.2 Accentuation -- 3.1.2 Deletion of the glottal stop -- 3.1.3 Summary -- 3.2 Degemination -- 3.2.1 Cluster durations -- 3.2.2 Categorical evaluation -- 4 Summary and discussion -- References -- Phonological domains in Luxembourgish and their relevance for the phonological system -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Luxembourgish -- 3 (Potential) Syllable language traits.

3.1 Distribution of schwa -- 3.2 Schwa epenthesis -- 4 Word language traits -- 5 Phenomena related to the syllable and the phonological word at the same time -- 5.1 n-rule -- 5.2 Resyllabification and voicing assimilation -- 6 Discussion -- References -- Low German: A profile of a word language -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Low German as a word language -- 2.1 Criteria -- 2.2 Phoneme system -- 2.3 Stress sensitivity in segmental phonotactics -- 2.3.1 Syllable structure, word structure, and stress -- 2.3.2 Word-medial consonants -- 2.4 Phonological processes -- 2.4.1 Word-medial obstruent voicing -- 2.4.2 Stem-final consonants and postverbal /ɪk/ -- 2.4.3 Expanding phonological words: Function words -- 2.5 Word-level suprasegmental: The Knick phoneme -- 3 Areal perspective: North German, Scandinavian, and beyond -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Phonological and phonetic considerations for a classification of Swiss German dialects as a word language or a syllable language -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonetic correlates of phonological differences -- 3 Swiss German dialect - A syllable language? -- 3.1 Word-related features in Swiss German dialects -- 3.2 Syllable-related features in Swiss German dialects -- 4 Prosodic evidence on the phonetic level -- 4.1 Resyllabification and the duration of fricatives -- 4.2 Duration of schwa -- 4.3 Intonation contour -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 4: Synchronic approaches (Romance languages) -- Central Catalan in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Determining the phonological domains -- 3 Syllable structure -- 4 Phonotactic restrictions -- 4.1 Stress-related restrictions -- 4.2 Position-related restrictions -- 5 Word-related processes -- 5.1 Word-final obstruent devoicing -- 5.2 Affrication of word-final /ʒ/ -- 5.3 Obstruent voicing across words.

5.4 Deletion of unstressed vowels.