Phonetics and Phonology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Part I Between phonetics and phonology -- Schwa in American English V+/r/ sequences* -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives and hypotheses -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 Stimuli and data collection -- 2.3 Data processing and analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Schwa-like element and canonical schwa -- 3.2 Schwa-like element and preceding vowel -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Recordings -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Subjects and listening tasks -- 2.4 Statistics -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Duration and overall intensity -- 3.2 Duration and spectral tilt -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish?* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental investigation -- 2.1 Method -- 2.2 Data analysis and measurements -- 2.3 Statistical analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Pitch excursion size differences -- 3.2 Durational differences -- 4. Discussion and conclusion: Sources of variation -- References -- Appendix -- Cues to contrastive focus in Romanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Recordings -- 2.4 Measurements -- 2.5 Statistics -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Pitch range -- 3.2 F0 peak alignment -- 3.3 Duration -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- The phonetics of sentence-initial topic and focus in adult and child Dutch* -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Similarity in phonological marking of topic and focus -- 1.2 Previous work on phonetic realization of topic and focus -- 1.3 Phonetic parameters and predictions in the present study -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Data elicitation -- 2.2 Data selection -- 2.3 Acoustic analysis.

3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 Adults -- 3.2 Children -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part II Segmental and prosodic interactions -- Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ontology of metrical structure -- 3. Ontogeny of metrical structure -- 4. The παιδολογος project - cross-linguistic research on phonological acquisition -- 5. Disfluencies and deletions in the παιδολογος recordings -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Rhythmic and prosodic contrast in Venetan and Sicilian Italian* -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Rhythm metrics and rhythmic typology -- 1.2 Temporal and non-temporal correlates of rhythm -- 1.3 The phonetic basis of Italian rhythm -- 1.4 Experimental aims -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Recordings -- 2.4 Measurements -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Results: Rhythm scores -- 3.2 Results: Prosodic timing -- 3.3 Results: Vowel reduction -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Stem boundary and stress effects on syllabification in Spanish* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Related issues -- 3.1 Stress assignment -- 3.2 Verbal stress -- 3.3 Syllabification in derived forms -- 3.4 Diminutives -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Verbal stress assignment -- 4.2 Deverbal nominals -- 4.3 Prosodic effects -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Prosodic and segmental effects on Vowel intrusion duration in Spanish /ɾC/ clusters* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The intrusive vowel -- 2.1 Why IVs merit special investigation -- 2.2 The intrusive vowel in Spanish /ɾC/ clusters -- 2.3 The aim of the current study -- 3. Experimental design -- 3.1. Subjects -- 3.2 Data collection -- 3.3 Data analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Across all subjects -- 4.2 By country of origin -- 4.3 Supported hypotheses -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 A gestural approach -- 5.2 Word position.

5.3 Order of constriction location -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Part III Interactions between segments and features -- Acoustic and aerodynamic factors in the interaction of features -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Voicing favors nasality -- 3. Nasality facilitates voicing -- 3.1 Explanations for the sound patterns -- 3.2 Further interactions between nasalization and voicing -- 3.3 Nasalization as a maneuver to prolong/initiate voicing -- 3.4 Distribution of prenasalization and aerodynamic constraints on voicing maintenance/initiation -- 3.5 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Fixed and variable properties of the palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The palatalization of dental stops in Antônio Prado -- 3. The palatalization of dental stops in Antônio Prado (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- 3.1 Antônio Prado -- 3.2 The palatalization of dental stops in Antônio Prado: Quantitative aspects -- 4. The palatalization of dental stops -- 4.1 Palatalization by the high underlying vowel -- 4.2 The raising of mid, unstressed vowels and palatalization -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Post-tonic vowel harmony in some dialects of Central Italy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Theoretical problems -- 3.1 Previous analyses -- 3.2 Discussion of the previous proposals -- 4. Metrical structure -- 4.1 Post-tonic vowel duration in proparoxytones -- 5. Metrical representation and harmony -- 5.1 Directionality of vowel harmony: The interaction of phonetic and phonological tendencies -- 6. Liquid consonants -- 6.1 Feature activation -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Vowel reduction and vowel harmony in Eastern Catalan loanword phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Catalan vowel system -- 3. Vowel reduction blockage -- 4. The emergence of the unmarked: The preference for [-ATR] stressed vowels.

5. Vowel harmony -- 6. Variation and stages of nativization -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Index of Subjects and Languages -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.