Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Phonology and Typology -- Structural complexity of consonant clusters: A phonologist's view -- On the relations between [sonorant] and [voice] -- Limited consonant clusters in OV languages -- Manner, place and voice interactions in Greek cluster phonotactics -- Consonant clusters in four Samoyedic languages -- Part II. Production: analysis and models -- Articulatory coordination and the syllabification of word initial consonant clusters in Italian -- A gestural model of the temporal organization of vowel clusters in Romanian -- Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents -- Tonogenesis in Lhasa Tibetan - Towards a gestural account -- Part III. Acquisition -- Probabilistic phonotactics in lexical acquisition: The role of syllable complexity -- Acquiring and avoiding phonological complexity in SLI vs. typical development of French: The case of consonant clusters -- Part IV. Assimilation and reduction in connected speech -- Articulatory reduction and assimilation in n#g sequences in complex words in German -- Overlap-driven consequences of Nasal place assimilation -- The acoustics of high-vowel loss in a Northern Greek dialect and typological implications -- List of contributors -- Subject index -- Language index