Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- I. Laboratory phonology. Tenth anniversary session -- Laboratory Phonology: Past successes and current questions, challenges, and goals -- At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics - the interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures -- Geminates at the junction of phonetics and phonology -- How abstract phonemic categories are necessary for coping with speaker-related variation -- What is LabPhon? And where is it going? -- II. Variation and language universals -- Variation in co-variation: The search for explanatory principles -- Tonal effects on perceived vowel duration -- Mixed voicing word-initial onset clusters -- Phonetically-based sound patterns: Typological tendencies or phonological universals? -- III. Variation and the emergence of phonology -- Developing representations and the emergence of phonology: Evidence from perception and production -- Phonological templates in early words -- Constraints on the acquisition of variation -- A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of phonology -- IV. Variation at the crossroad between normal and "disordered" speech -- Hard-wired phonology: Limits and latitude of phonological variation in pathological speech -- Representation and access in phonological impairment -- Intonation structure and disfluency detection in stuttering -- Prosodic structure and tongue twister errors -- Commentary on papers:Variation at the crossroad between normal and disordered speech -- V. Phonetic detail, processes and representation -- Phonetic variation as communicative system: Perception of the particular and the abstract -- Morphological effects on fine phonetic detail: The case of Dutch -igheid -- The variability of early accent peaks in Standard German -- Lexical and contextual predictability: Confluent effects on the production of vowels -- Modeling listeners: Comments on Pluymaekers et al. and Scarborough -- What is and what is not under the control of the speaker: Intrinsic vowel duration -- Variation in overlap and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters -- Variability and homogeneity in American English /ɹ/ allophony and /s/ retraction -- Compensation for assimilatory devoicing and prosodic structure in German fricative perception -- Filling the perceptuo-motor gap -- Backmatter