Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relative frequency of Romanian phonemes -- 3. On the origins of /ᵻ/ in Romanian -- 4. The distribution of /e̯a/ and /o̯a/ in Romanian -- 5. Distributional evidence for marginal contrast -- 6. Acoustics of Romanian monophthongs -- 7. Acoustics of Romanian diphthongs -- 8. Perception of vowels in Romanian -- 9. A multidimensional model of contrast -- References -- Index