Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

1. Introduction; 2. Part 1: Segments and processes; 3. Detection of liaison consonants in speech processing in French: Experimental data and theoretical implications (by Nguyen, Noel); 4. Patterns of VCV coarticulatory direction according to the DAC model (by Recasens, Daniel); 5. The stability of phonological features within and across segments: The effect of nasalization on frication (by Sole, Maria-Josep); 6. Pre- and postaspirated stops in Andalusian Spanish (by Torreira, Francisco); 7. Part 2: Prosodic structure; 8. Variation in the intonation of extra-sentential elements (by Astruc-Aguilera, Lluisa); 9. Voicing-dependent cluster simplification asymmetries in Spanish and French (by Colantoni, Laura); 10. The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance (by Frota, Sonia); 11. Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in deaccented syllables (by Ortega-Llebaria, Marta); 12. Part 3: Acquisition of segmental contrasts and prosody; 13. On the effect of (morpho)phonological complexity in the early acquisition of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese (by Freitas, M. Joao); 14. The perception of lexical stress patterns by Spanish and Catalan infants (by Pons, Ferran); 15. Logistic regression modelling for first and second language perception data (by Morrison, Geoffrey-Stewart); 16. Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languages (by White, Laurence); 17. Subject Index