Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America 9781101871843, 9781101871850, 1101871849

Table of contents :
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Foreword --
Tabula gratulatoria --
I. The Syllable and Glides --
Conditions on front mid-vowel gliding in Spanish --
The syllabic position of glides in Spanish: insights from Pasiego vowel harmony --
Gliding ghosts or ghostly glides, and does it matter which? --
II. The Syllable --
Onset, Coda, and Cross Linguistic Aspects --
On onset clusters in Spanish: voiced obstruent underspecification and /f/ --
Syllable merger in Chicano Spanish: a constraint-based analysis --
The challenge of lexically empty onsets in first language acquisition of Spanish and German --
The acquisition order of liquids in Spanish complex onsets --
III. The Syllable and the Notions of Stress and Weight --
Spanish vocalic epenthesis: the phonetics of sonority and the mora --
The phonological weight of Spanish syllables --
Syllable weight, stress, and the neutralization of vowel length in Batticaloa Creole Portuguese --
Subject index --
Index of constraints