Romance Phonetics and Phonology, edited by Mark Gibson, delves into various recurring topics within the fields of Romance phonetics and phonology, emphasizing analysis at segmental, syllabic, word, and phrase levels. This comprehensive volume showcases a diverse array of research from an international team of experts and junior researchers, encompassing everything from the intricate mechanical processes of speech production and perception to higher-level representation and computation.

The book is structured into five parts: acoustic studies, articulatory features, perception, phonological issues, and language acquisition. It explores detailed topics such as Italian anaphonesis, voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician, three-consonant onsets in Romanian, rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian, perceived phrasing in French, individual voice quality cues, mid-vowel reduction in Galician, and sibilant voicing in Spanish. Additionally, it examines how production and perception impact language acquisition.

By drawing from a wide range of experimental and methodological approaches, this book is an essential resource for scholars of Romance linguistics as well as researchers working in phonetics and phonology at the graduate level and beyond.