In this volume, notable scholars honor James W. Harris for his contributions to Romance phonology. Inscribed within generative grammar, the studies seek to explain various phonological processes, structured around glides, aspects of onsets/codas as well as stress and weight. This book will be a useful reference tool for specialists in theoretical phonology, language acquisition, language in contact, bilingualism, and Spanish dialectology.
Foreword
ix
Tabula gratulatoria
xviii
I The Syllable and Glides
Constraints on front mid-vowel gliding in Spanish
1
(28)
Laura Colantoni
Jose I. Hualde
The syllabic position of glides in Spanish: insights from Pasiego vowel harmony
29
(22)
Ellen M. Kaisse
Gliding ghosts or ghostly glides, and does it matter which?
51
(56)
Iggy Roca
II The Syllable -- Onset, Coda, and Cross Linguistic Aspects
On onset clusters in Spanish: voiced onset underspecification and /f/
107
(32)
Sonia Colina
Syllable merger in Chicano Spanish: a constraint-based analysis
139
(48)
Fernando Martinez-Gil
The challenge of lexically empty onsets in first language acquisition of Spanish and German
187
(32)
Conxita Lleo
The acquisition order of Spanish liquids in complex onsets
219
(26)
Rafael A. Nunez Cedeno
III The Syllable and the Notions of Stress and Weight
Spanish vocalic epenthesis: the phonetics of the mora
245
(26)
John M. Lipski
The phonological weight of Spanish syllables
271
(44)
Carlos-Eduardo Pineros
Syllable weight, stress, and the neutralization of vowel length in Batticaloa Creole Portuguese
315
(18)
W. Leo Wetzels
Ben Hermans
Subject index
333
(6)
Index of constraints
339
Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
