The Syllable in Optimality Theory (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Caroline Fery and Ruben van de Vijver; Part I. Syllable Structure and Prosodic Structure: 2. Sympathy, cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York gambit John McCarthy; 3. The controversy over geminates and syllable weight Stuart Davis; 4. The syllable as a unit of prosodic organization in Japanese Haruo Kubozono; 5. Prosodic weight Draga Zec; Part II. Non-moraic Syllables and Syllable Edges: 6. Syllables and moras in Arabic Paul Kiparsky; 7. Semi-syllables and universal syllabification Young-mee Cho and Tracy Holloway King; 8. Onsets and non-moraic syllables in German Caroline Fery; 9. Extrasyllabic consonants and onset well-formedness Antony Dubach Green; 10. Beyond codas: word and phase-final alignment Caroline Wiltshire; Part III. Segments and Syllables: 11. On the sources of opacity in OT: coda processes in German Junko Ito and Armin Mester; 12. Ambisyllabicity and fricative voicing in West-Germanic dialects Marc van Oostendorp; 13. The CiV generalization in Dutch: what Petunia, Mafia, and Sovjet tell us about Dutch syllable structure Ruben van de Vijver; 14. The relative harmony of/s+stop/onsets: obstruent clusters and the sonority sequencing principle Frida Morelli; Part IV. How Concrete is Phonotactics?: 15. The independent nature of phonotactic constraints: an alternative to syllable-based approaches Juliette Blevins.