A new article co-authored with Karthik Durvasula has been published in Phonetica: “Revisiting phonetic diagnostics of syllable structure: Evidence from Spanish /sl/ and /sm/ clusters.”
The study examines how temporal stability and compensatory shortening patterns are interpreted in phonetic diagnostics of syllable affiliation. Our results and simulations suggest that, despite superficial evidence of a c-centre alignment (which would challenge traditional analysis of complex onsets in Spanish), the clusters are more consistent with right-edge alignment once poly-constituent shortening and domain-initial lengthening are taken into consideration.