Variation within and across Romance Languages

1. Foreword and Acknowledgments; 2. Editors' introduction; 3. Part I. Sound patterns; 4. Sibilant voicing assimilation in peninsular Spanish as gestural blending (by Campos-Astorkiza, Rebeka); 5. Phonology-morphology opacity in Harmonic Serialism: The case of /s/ aspiration in Spanish (by Torres-Tamarit, Francesc); 6. Morphologically conditioned intervocalic rhotacism in Algherese Catalan: An account with lexically indexed constraints (by Cabrera-Callis, Maria); 7. Muta cum liquida in the light of Tertenia Sardinian metathesis and compensatory lengthening Latin tr > Old French Vrr (by Scheer, Tobias); 8. Schwa at the phonology/syntax interface (by Mazzola, Michael L.); 9. Weight effects across verbal domains: The case of Spanish subjects (by Hernandez, Roberto Mayoral); 10. Part II. Syntax and semantics; 11. On truth persistence: A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to sempre (by Amaral, Patricia); 12. Pick some but not all alternatives! (by Falaus, Anamaria); 13. Polarity fronting in Romanian and Sardinian (by Giurgea, Ion); 14. Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican Spanish (by Gutierrez-Rexach, Javier); 15. 'Minimal link constraint' violations: Move vs. Agree (by Marchis Moreno, Mihaela); 16. On subjunctives and islandhood (by Baunaz, Lena); 17. When control can't be a fact (by Reed, Lisa A.); 18. Part III. Historical aspects; 19. Prevocalic velar advancement in Chilean Spanish and Proto-Romance (by Gonzalez, Carolina); 20. The role of the copula in the diachronic development of focus constructions in Portuguese (by Kato, Mary Aizawa); 21. The French wh interrogative system: Evolution and clefting (by Tailleur, Sandrine); 22. On the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance object clitic syntax (by Tortora, Christina); 23. Part IV. Interactions across dialects and languages; 24. Investigating the effects of perceptual salience and regional dialect on phonetic accommodation in Spanish (by MacLeod, Bethany); 25. English questions, Spanish structure: A shared-structure account of interlinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition (by Hsin, Lisa); 26. French oral proficiency assessment: Elicited imitation with speech recognition (by Millard, Benjamin); 27. Name index; 28. Subject index