Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Central Thesis 2. Theoretical Background 3. Organization of the Dissertation Chapter 2: Articulatory Locality 1. Introduction 2. Articulation of a VCV Sequence 3. Articulation of a CVC Sequence 4. Converging Sources of Evidence for Articulatory Locality 5. Previous Proposals on Locality 6. Autosegmental Spreading and Articulatory Locality 7. Summary and Conclusion