Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Preface -- Introduction: Syllable and word languages -- Part 1: Theoretical issues -- The typology of syllable and word languages and Swedish phonological structure -- Syllable complexity in the diachrony of Romance languages: A center vs. periphery view and the syllable vs. word rhythm paradigm -- Pervasive syllables and phonological unity in words -- Monosyllabic Lengthening in German and its relation to the syllable vs. word language typology -- Vowel and consonant epentheses in the history of German from the typological perspective of syllable and word languages -- Part 2: Diachronic approaches -- Scandinavian word phonology: Evidence for a typological cycle -- Syllable- and word-related developments in earlier Indo-Iranian -- From Christel to Christina, from Klaus to Nico: A diachronic study of German first names (1945-2010) and their shift towards the syllable language type -- Part 3: Synchronic approaches (Germanic languages) -- Reduction and deletion of glottal stops and geminates at phonological word boundaries in German compounds: Effects of word frequency and accentuation -- Phonological domains in Luxembourgish and their relevance for the phonological system -- Low German: A profile of a word language -- Phonological and phonetic considerations for a classification of Swiss German dialects as a word language or a syllable language -- Part 4: Synchronic approaches (Romance languages) -- Central Catalan in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages -- Batidas latinas: On rhythm and meter in Spanish and Portuguese and other forms of music -- Syllable typology and the rhythm class hypothesis: Evidence from Italo-Romance dialects