Front Matter -- Preface -- Monosyllables and prosody: the Sonority Syllable Model meets the word* -- Lexical-syllable contrast is preserved: evidence from cross-linguistic investigation of vowel nasality -- Cross-language categorization of monosyllabic foreign tones: effects of phonological and phonetic properties of native language* -- The human factor of economy of effort cross-linguistically: a contrastive analysis of the phonotactic distribution of consonants in Belarusian and French monosyllabic words* -- Effects of morphology on the syllable structure -- Monosyllabicization: patterns of evolution in Asian languages* -- Morpho-phonological and morphological minimality in Tswana monosyllabic stems (Southern Bantu) -- Romance monosyllabic imperatives and markedness -- Relations with monosyllables: a view from Quantitative Linguistics -- ω → α → V: The first step towards the comparative grammar of monosyllables -- Back Matter