This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational structure in phonology and morphology, intonation in Spanish, and issues in variation including dialectal differences, codeswitching, foreigner talk, and language death. The papers in this volume include discussions of the major Romance languages (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish), pidgins and creoles resulting from contact with Romance languages, and relationships with languages from other families, such as English and Dutch.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments v List of Contributors ix Romance Phonology and Variation Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps 1 Constraining the Vagaries of Glide Distribution in Varieties of French Barbara E. Bullock 11 On the Relationship between Comprehension and Production Data in Codeswitching Paola Dussias 27 Focus, Word Order Variation and Intonation in Spanish and English: An OT account Rodrigo Gutièrrez-Bravo 39 Morphological Complexity and Spanish Object Clitic Variation David J. Heap 55 Catalan Phonology: Cluster simplification and nasal place assimilation Dylan Herrick 69 The Articulator Group and Liquid Geometry: Implications for Spanish phonology present and past D. Eric Holt 85 Intonation in Spanish and the other Ibero-Romance Languages: Overview and status quaestionis José Ignacio Hualde 101 ‘Partial Spanish’: Strategies of pidginization and simplification (from Lingua Franca to ‘Gringo Lingo’) John M. Lipski 117 The Death of French in Medieval England D. Gary Miller 145 Discourse Context and Polysemy: Spanish casi Scott A. Schwenter 161 New Insights into French Reduplication Mary Ellen Scullen 177 Local Conjunction in Italian and French Phonology Bernard Tranel and Francesca Del Gobbo 191 On the Relation between uantity-sensitive Stress and Distinctive Vowel Length: The history of a principle and its relevance for Romance W. Leo Wetzels 219 Index of Terms & Concepts 235