There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives. This volume draws from selected contributions to the conference Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity held in Munich in August 2008. Consonant sequences, whether occurring within individual lexical items or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. But contributions also consider the integration of tonal and vocalic elements into syllable structure. The main aim of the volume is to do justice to this complexity by bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds. The book is organized into four main sections entitled Phonology and Typology, Production: Analysis and Models, Acquisition, and Assimilation and reduction in connected speech.

Philip Hoole, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany; Lasse Bombien, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany; Marianne Pouplier, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany; Christine Mooshammer, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA; Barbara Kühnert, Institut du Monde Anglophone & Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France.