Frontmatter -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introducing the volume -- Part I: General Issues -- 2 Theories of the syllable -- 3 Morpheme structure constraints and the phonotactics of Dutch -- 4 Syllables in Danish -- 5 The syllable in Hindi -- Part II: Government Phonology -- 6 Head-Driven Phonology -- 7 The syllable in German: Exploring an alternative -- 8 Consonant clusters and governing relations: Polish initial consonant sequences -- 9 Hungarian syllable structure: Arguments for/against complex constituents -- 10 The Latin syllable -- 11 Syllables in Western Koromfe -- Part III: Moraic Phonology -- 12 The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology -- 13 Kihehe syllable structure -- 14 Dschang syllable structure -- 15 The syllable in Chinese -- 16 The syllable and syllabification in Modern Spoken Arabic (Ṣancānī and Cairene) -- 17 The Romansch syllable -- Part IV: Optimality Theory -- 18 Syllables and phonotactics in Irish -- 19 A preliminary account of some aspects of Leurbost Gaelic syllable structure -- 20 Quantity in Norwegian syllable structure -- Part V: Other approaches -- 21 A syllable-level feature in Finnish -- 22 Sievers' Law in Vedic -- Indexes -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects -- 789-790