Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Tabula gratulatoria -- I. The Syllable and Glides -- Conditions on front mid-vowel gliding in Spanish -- The syllabic position of glides in Spanish: insights from Pasiego vowel harmony -- Gliding ghosts or ghostly glides, and does it matter which? -- II. The Syllable - Onset, Coda, and Cross Linguistic Aspects -- On onset clusters in Spanish: voiced obstruent underspecification and /f/ -- Syllable merger in Chicano Spanish: a constraint-based analysis -- The challenge of lexically empty onsets in first language acquisition of Spanish and German -- The acquisition order of liquids in Spanish complex onsets -- III. The Syllable and the Notions of Stress and Weight -- Spanish vocalic epenthesis: the phonetics of sonority and the mora -- The phonological weight of Spanish syllables -- Syllable weight, stress, and the neutralization of vowel length in Batticaloa Creole Portuguese -- Subject index -- Index of constraints