Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the

This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology but phonologists are divided on even the mo

This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchica