Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	Syllable Weight: Descriptive Generalizations	3
1.1	Introduction	3
1.2	Two Sources of Weight: Coerced and Distinctive	11
1.3	Summary of Weight Descriptive Generalizations	19
Ch. 2	Optimality Theory, Typology and Constraints	21
2.1	Optimality Theory and Typology	21
2.2	Constraints	22
2.3	Constraint Interactions and Weight Patterns	31
Ch. 3	Segment Weight Typology	41
3.1	Introduction	41
3.2	Coerced Weight	41
3.3	Distinctive Weight	59
3.4	Interactions between Coerced and Distinctive Weight	85
Ch. 4	Case Studies	107
4.1	Hawaiian Syllable Weight	107
4.2	Italian Syllable Weight and Stress Assignment	112
4.3	Kashmiri Syllable Weight and Stress Assignment	131
4.4	Moraicity in Two Hungarian Dialects	154
4.5	Icelandic Phonology: A Unified Account	184
4.6	Metropolitan New York English	203
Ch. 5	Miscellaneous Issues and General Conclusions	231
5.1	No Need for Long-Vowel and Geminate Constraints	232
5.2	Shared Morae and Phonetic Correlations (Broselow et al 1997)	238
5.3	Positive Versus Negative Moraic Markedness Constraints	247
5.4	Heavy Geminates and Light Codas (Tranel 1991)	254
	Bibliography	267
	Index	275