Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Romance phonetics and phonology: an introduction -- I. Key topics in Romance phonology -- 1 Length and weight in Romance -- 2 Syllable structure and (re)syllabification -- 3 Processes affecting vowels -- 4 From vowel weakening in Romance to French schwa -- 5 Palatalization in Romance -- 6 Nasals and nasalization -- 7 The evolution of Latin stress into Romance with special consideration of French -- 8 Comparing and deconstructing speech rhythm across Romance languages -- 9 Intonation -- 10 Corpus phonology -- 11 Sociophonetics -- 12 First language acquisition of Romance phonology -- 13 Bilingual phonological acquisition -- 14 Second and third language acquisition of Romance phonology -- 15 The phonology of Romance contact varieties -- 16 Loanword phonology in Romance -- II. Phonetics and phonology of Romance languages -- 17 Romanian -- 18 Italian -- 19 Sardinian -- 20 Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh -- 21 French -- 22 Occitan -- 23 Catalan -- 24 Spanish -- 25 Judeo-Spanish -- 26 Portuguese -- 27 Galician -- 28 Romance-lexifier creoles -- List of contributors -- Index