Syllable in Optimality Theory Book

	List of Contributors
	Preface
1	Overview	3
2	Sympathy, Cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York Gambit	23
3	The Controversy over Geminates and Syllable Weight	77
4	The Syllable as a Unit of Prosodic Organization in Japanese	99
5	Prosodic Weight	123
6	Syllables and Moras in Arabic	147
7	Semisyllables and Universal Syllabification	183
8	Onsets and Nonmoraic Syllables in German	213
9	Extrasyllabic Consonants and Onset Well-Formedness	238
10	Beyond Codas: Word and Phrase-Final Alignment	254
11	On the Sources of Opacity in OT: Coda Processes in German	271
12	Ambisyllabicity and Fricative Voicing in West Germanic Dialects	304
13	The CiV-Generalization in Dutch: What Petunia, Mufia, and Sovjet Tell Us about Dutch Syllable Structure	338
14	The Relative Harmony of /s+Stop/ Onsets: Obstruent Clusters and the Sonority Sequencing Principle	356
15	The Independent Nature of Phonotactic Constraints: An Alternative to Syllable-Based Approaches	375
	Author Index	405
	Languages Index	410
	Subject Index	413