Mark Gibson is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Speech Laboratory at the University of Navarra. His research focuses on articulatory timing in syllables from a Laboratory Phonology perspective. He is the author of An Introduction to Spanish Phonology: From an Optimality-Theoretical Approach (VDM, 2011) and of numerous journal articles in English, Spanish, and French.Juana Gil is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Lyon, having previously held positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at UNED, the Spanish open university. She also founded the Postgraduate Program in Speech Sciences organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is mainly interested in the phonetics-phonology interface and in some applications of phonetics, such forensic phonetics and second language pronunciation learning and teaching. She is the co-editor, with Ricardo Mairal, of Linguistic Universals (CUP, 2006).

The volume does offer a welcome and timely survey of phonetic variation and how it ties in with phonology ... The tools and methodologies adapted from the speech sciences offer much potential to explore some of the outstanding issues and questions in phonetic/phonological variation ... [offers] new and welcome insight into Romance phonetics and phonology and innovative ways to integrate speech science methodologies into the study of complex linguistic questions.

• 1: Mark Gibson and Juana Gil: Romance sounds: New insights for old issues PART 1: ACOUSTIC STUDIES 2: Beatriz Blecua and Jordi Cicres: Rhotic variation in Spanish codas. Acoustic analysis and effect of context in spontaneous speech 3: Silvia Calamai: The phonetics of Italian anaphonesis: Between production and perception 4: Xosé Luis Regueira and María José Ginzo: A cross-linguistic study of voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician and European Portuguese 5: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda Decker and Fabián Santiago: Acoustic realization of vowels as a function of syllable position: a cross-linguistic study with data from French and Spanish PART 2: ARTICULATORY STUDIES 6: Chiara Celata, Alessandro Vietti, and Lorenzo Spreafico: An articulatory account of rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian: Synchronized UTI and EPG data 7: Ioana Chitoran and Stefania Marin: Vowels and diphthongs: The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei 8: Stefania Marin: Temporal organization of three-consonant onsets in Romanian 9: Daniel Recasens and Meritxell Mira: Articulatory setting, articulatory symmetry and production mechanisms for a subset of consonant sequences in three Catalan dialects PART 3: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION 10: Marianela Fernández Trinidad and José Manuel Rojo-Abuin: Perceptual cues for individual voice quality 11: Joaquim Llisterri and Sandra Schwab: Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers 12: Sandra Madureira: Brazilian Portuguese rhotics in poem reciting: perceptual, acoustic and meaning-related issues 13: Caroline L. Smith: Perceived phrasing in French: a survey of some sentence structures PART 4: PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES 14: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza: Modeling assimilation: The case of sibilant voicing in Spanish 15: Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Clàudia Pons-Moll: Adjusting to the syllable margins: Glides in Spanish and Catalan 16: Fernando Martínez Gil: Galician mid-vowel reduction: A Stratal OT account PART 5: STUDIES IN ACQUISITION 17: Laura Bosch: Language proximity and phonetic perception in young bilinguals: revisiting the trajectory of infants from Spanish-Catalan contexts 18: Jaydene Elvin, Polina Vasiliev, and Paola Escudero: Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese 19: Isabelle Racine and Sylvain Detey: Production of French close rounded vowels by Spanish learners: A corpus-based study 20: Miquel Simonet: Phonetic behavior in proficient bilinguals: insights from the Catalan-Spanish contact situation References Index

Mark Gibson is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Speech Laboratory at the University of Navarra. His research focuses on articulatory timing in syllables from a Laboratory Phonology perspective. He is the author of An Introduction to Spanish Phonology: From an Optimality-Theoretical Approach (VDM, 2011) and of numerous journal articles in English, Spanish, and French.Juana Gil is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Lyon, having previously held positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at UNED, the Spanish open university. She also founded the Postgraduate Program in Speech Sciences organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is mainly interested in the phonetics-phonology interface and in some applications of phonetics, such forensic phonetics and second language pronunciation learning and teaching. She is the co-editor, with Ricardo Mairal, of Linguistic Universals (CUP, 2006).

The volume does offer a welcome and timely survey of phonetic variation and how it ties in with phonology ... The tools and methodologies adapted from the speech sciences offer much potential to explore some of the outstanding issues and questions in phonetic/phonological variation ... [offers] new and welcome insight into Romance phonetics and phonology and innovative ways to integrate speech science methodologies into the study of complex linguistic questions.

• 1: Mark Gibson and Juana Gil: Romance sounds: New insights for old issues PART 1: ACOUSTIC STUDIES 2: Beatriz Blecua and Jordi Cicres: Rhotic variation in Spanish codas. Acoustic analysis and effect of context in spontaneous speech 3: Silvia Calamai: The phonetics of Italian anaphonesis: Between production and perception 4: Xosé Luis Regueira and María José Ginzo: A cross-linguistic study of voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician and European Portuguese 5: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda Decker and Fabián Santiago: Acoustic realization of vowels as a function of syllable position: a cross-linguistic study with data from French and Spanish PART 2: ARTICULATORY STUDIES 6: Chiara Celata, Alessandro Vietti, and Lorenzo Spreafico: An articulatory account of rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian: Synchronized UTI and EPG data 7: Ioana Chitoran and Stefania Marin: Vowels and diphthongs: The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei 8: Stefania Marin: Temporal organization of three-consonant onsets in Romanian 9: Daniel Recasens and Meritxell Mira: Articulatory setting, articulatory symmetry and production mechanisms for a subset of consonant sequences in three Catalan dialects PART 3: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION 10: Marianela Fernández Trinidad and José Manuel Rojo-Abuin: Perceptual cues for individual voice quality 11: Joaquim Llisterri and Sandra Schwab: Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers 12: Sandra Madureira: Brazilian Portuguese rhotics in poem reciting: perceptual, acoustic and meaning-related issues 13: Caroline L. Smith: Perceived phrasing in French: a survey of some sentence structures PART 4: PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES 14: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza: Modeling assimilation: The case of sibilant voicing in Spanish 15: Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Clàudia Pons-Moll: Adjusting to the syllable margins: Glides in Spanish and Catalan 16: Fernando Martínez Gil: Galician mid-vowel reduction: A Stratal OT account PART 5: STUDIES IN ACQUISITION 17: Laura Bosch: Language proximity and phonetic perception in young bilinguals: revisiting the trajectory of infants from Spanish-Catalan contexts 18: Jaydene Elvin, Polina Vasiliev, and Paola Escudero: Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese 19: Isabelle Racine and Sylvain Detey: Production of French close rounded vowels by Spanish learners: A corpus-based study 20: Miquel Simonet: Phonetic behavior in proficient bilinguals: insights from the Catalan-Spanish contact situation References Index

Mark Gibson is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Speech Laboratory at the University of Navarra. His research focuses on articulatory timing in syllables from a Laboratory Phonology perspective. He is the author of An Introduction to Spanish Phonology: From an Optimality-Theoretical Approach (VDM, 2011) and of numerous journal articles in English, Spanish, and French.Juana Gil is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Lyon, having previously held positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at UNED, the Spanish open university. She also founded the Postgraduate Program in Speech Sciences organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is mainly interested in the phonetics-phonology interface and in some applications of phonetics, such forensic phonetics and second language pronunciation learning and teaching. She is the co-editor, with Ricardo Mairal, of Linguistic Universals (CUP, 2006).

The volume does offer a welcome and timely survey of phonetic variation and how it ties in with phonology ... The tools and methodologies adapted from the speech sciences offer much potential to explore some of the outstanding issues and questions in phonetic/phonological variation ... [offers] new and welcome insight into Romance phonetics and phonology and innovative ways to integrate speech science methodologies into the study of complex linguistic questions.

• 1: Mark Gibson and Juana Gil: Romance sounds: New insights for old issues PART 1: ACOUSTIC STUDIES 2: Beatriz Blecua and Jordi Cicres: Rhotic variation in Spanish codas. Acoustic analysis and effect of context in spontaneous speech 3: Silvia Calamai: The phonetics of Italian anaphonesis: Between production and perception 4: Xosé Luis Regueira and María José Ginzo: A cross-linguistic study of voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician and European Portuguese 5: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda Decker and Fabián Santiago: Acoustic realization of vowels as a function of syllable position: a cross-linguistic study with data from French and Spanish PART 2: ARTICULATORY STUDIES 6: Chiara Celata, Alessandro Vietti, and Lorenzo Spreafico: An articulatory account of rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian: Synchronized UTI and EPG data 7: Ioana Chitoran and Stefania Marin: Vowels and diphthongs: The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei 8: Stefania Marin: Temporal organization of three-consonant onsets in Romanian 9: Daniel Recasens and Meritxell Mira: Articulatory setting, articulatory symmetry and production mechanisms for a subset of consonant sequences in three Catalan dialects PART 3: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION 10: Marianela Fernández Trinidad and José Manuel Rojo-Abuin: Perceptual cues for individual voice quality 11: Joaquim Llisterri and Sandra Schwab: Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers 12: Sandra Madureira: Brazilian Portuguese rhotics in poem reciting: perceptual, acoustic and meaning-related issues 13: Caroline L. Smith: Perceived phrasing in French: a survey of some sentence structures PART 4: PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES 14: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza: Modeling assimilation: The case of sibilant voicing in Spanish 15: Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Clàudia Pons-Moll: Adjusting to the syllable margins: Glides in Spanish and Catalan 16: Fernando Martínez Gil: Galician mid-vowel reduction: A Stratal OT account PART 5: STUDIES IN ACQUISITION 17: Laura Bosch: Language proximity and phonetic perception in young bilinguals: revisiting the trajectory of infants from Spanish-Catalan contexts 18: Jaydene Elvin, Polina Vasiliev, and Paola Escudero: Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese 19: Isabelle Racine and Sylvain Detey: Production of French close rounded vowels by Spanish learners: A corpus-based study 20: Miquel Simonet: Phonetic behavior in proficient bilinguals: insights from the Catalan-Spanish contact situation References Index