Preface -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Theoretical assumptions -- 1. The Prosodic Hierarchy -- 1.1. Foot structure -- 1.2. Syllable structure -- 1.3. Segment structure -- 2. Status of underspecification in phonology -- 2.1. McCarthy and Taub (1992) -- 2.2. Steriade (1995) -- 2.3. Underspecification and psycholinguistics -- 3. Summary of the chapter -- Chapter 2. An overview of the Miogliola consonants -- 1. Surface consonants -- 2. Underlying consonants -- 3. The glides -- 4. The ghost consonants -- 5. The nasal [g] -- 5.1. [ŋ ] as the fourth nasal phoneme -- 5.2. [ŋ ] as the fifth placeless consonant -- 5.3. The Default Variability Hypothesis (DVH): underlyingly placeless /N/, surface placeless [ŋ ] -- 5.4. The other placeless segments and the DVH -- 5.5. Representing non-alternating [n] as placeless, alternating [n/ŋ ] as dorsal -- 5.6. [Dorsal] as the default feature? -- 5.7. A full specification approach to Miogliola nasals -- 6. Miogliola consonant inventory -- 6.1. Rhotics as the unspecified sonorants: Pignasco -- 7. Summary of the chapter -- Chapter 3. Consonantal prosody and metrical structure -- 1. Lengthening and non-lengthening consonants -- 2. On building metrical structure around stress -- 2.1. Obligatorily heavy stressed penults (1): vowel lengthening -- 2.2. Obligatorily heavy stressed penults (2): ambisyllabicity -- 2.3. The well-formedness of light stressed antepenults -- 2.4. The building of a moraic trochee -- 2.5. Stressed penults as heads of a moraic trochee -- 2.6. Final stress and the rhyme as a constituent -- 2.7. Stressed antepenults as heads of a moraic trochee -- 3. On deriving stress -- 3.1.Stress assignment -- 3.2. Lexical stress -- 3.3. Mora keeping versus mora losing consonants -- 3.4. Overview of the metrical system -- 4. The status of penultimate stress -- 4.1. Romance Stress -- 4.2. Italian -- 4.3. Spanish.

4.4. The evolution of penultimate stress from Latin -- 5. Summary of the chapter -- Chapter 4. Vowel patterns before /N/ -- 1. The vowel inventory before /N/ -- 2. The lengthening before intervocalic /N/ -- 3. Ambisyllabicity, not VC.V-syllabification -- 4. Vowel patterns before /N/ in stressed antepenults -- 5. Unstressed vowels before /N/ -- 6. Genovese /N/ -- 7. Summary of the chapter -- Chapter 5. An overview of the vowel system in Miogliola -- 1. Vowel inventories -- 1.1. Vowels in stressed position -- 1.2. Reduced vowel inventories -- 2. Vowel feature specification -- 2.1. The short vowels -- 2.2. The long vowels -- 2.3. Accounting for the reduced inventories -- 3. Summary of the chapter -- Chapter 6. The dorsal vowel /α / -- 1. Allophonic distribution of the vowel /α / -- 2. The vowel /α / before the lengthening consonants -- 3. The vowel /α / before the non-lengthening consonants -- 4. The whole picture -- 5. Summary of the chapter -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Word index -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index.