Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Sonority and Phonotactics -- Sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words -- The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin -- Is the Sonority Sequencing Principle an epiphenomenon? -- Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion - a typological survey -- Sonority variation in Stochastic Optimality Theory: Implications for markedness hierarchies -- Sonority intuitions are provided by the lexicon -- Part 2: Sonority and Phonetics -- Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study -- Sonority and the larynx -- Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids -- Part 3: Sonority and Language Acquisition -- The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas -- Part 4: Sonority and Sign Language -- Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables -- Part 5: Sonority and Computational Modeling -- Sonority and syllabification in a connectionist network: An analysis of BrbrNet -- References -- Author index -- Index of languages, dialects, and linguistic families -- Subject index