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Steve Parker is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, Texas.

List of contributors 9
Introduction 11
Part 1: Sonority and Phonotactics 17
Sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words 19
The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin 55
Is the Sonority Sequencing Principle an epiphenomenon? 81
Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion - a typological survey 117
Sonority variation in Stochastic Optimality Theory: Implications for markedness hierarchies 183
Sonority intuitions are provided by the lexicon 211
Part 2: Sonority and Phonetics 233
Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study 235
Sonority and the larynx 273
Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids 305
Part 3: Sonority and Language Acquisition 333
The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas 335
Part 4: Sonority and Sign Language 361
Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables 363
Part 5: Sonority and Computational Modeling 399
Sonority and syllabification in a connectionist network: An analysis of BrbrNet 401
References 427
Author index 489
Index of languages, dialects, and linguistic families 497
Subject index 501

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"In phonological theory, sonority is crucial, perplexing, and controversial. Parker's book is the most comprehensive and detailed examination of sonority to date, and is without doubt a significant waypoint in understanding this crucial aspect of linguistic cognition."
Paul de Lacy of Rutgers University