Approaches to Phonological Complexity

✍ Scribed by François Pellegrino (editor), Egidio Marsico (editor), Ioana Chitoran (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP], 16; 16
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The proposed volume draws on an interdisciplinary sketch of the phonetics-phonology interface in the light of complexity. Composed of several first-order contributions, it will consequently be a significant landmark at the time of the rise of several projects linking complexity and linguistics around the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives
Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness
Languages’ sound inventories: the devil in the details
Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels
Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity
Calculating phonological complexity
Favoured syllabic patterns in the world’s languages and sensorimotor constraints
Structural complexity of phonological systems
Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons
Part 3: Phonological representations in the light of complex adaptive systems
The dynamical approach to speech perception: From fine phonetic detail to abstract phonological categories
A dynamical model of change in phonological representations: The case of lenition
Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants: A comparison between Hungarian and French
The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading
Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition
Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model
Internal and external influences on child language productions
Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling
Backmatter

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