Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Harmonic processes and metaphony in some Italian varieties -- Metaphony and diphthongization in Southern Italy: reconstructive implications for sound change in early Romance -- On the morphophonology of metaphonic alternations in Altamurano -- Metaphony in the Ticino Canton and phonological features -- Progressive metaphony in the Abruzzese dialect of Teramo -- Metaphony and Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in plural nouns in the dialect of Airola -- On integrating different methodologies in phonological research: acoustic, articulatory, behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in the study of a metaphony system -- Which syntactic information gets interpreted by phonosyntactic processes? Evidence from /u/ propagation in Southern Italian dialects -- On the typology of metaphony/stress dependent harmony -- Metaphonic chain shifts, vowel height and markedness -- Positional prominence and consonantal interactions in metaphony and post-tonic harmony -- Opaque interactions between vowel merger and metaphony -- Abruzzese metaphony and the A eater -- Index