Approaches to phonological complexity (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Complexity in phonetics and phonology : gradience, categoriality, and naturalness / Ioana Chitoran and Abigail C. Cohn -- Languages' sound inventories : the devil in the details / John J. Ohala -- Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels / René Carré -- Calculating phonological complexity / Ian Maddieson -- Favoured syllabic patterns in the world's languages and sensorimotor constraints / Nathalie Vallée, Solange Rossato, and Isabelle Rousset -- Structural complexity of phonological systems / Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico, and François Pellegrino -- Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons / Christopher T. Kello and Brandon C. Beltz -- The dynamical approach to speech perception : from fine phonetic detail to abstract phonological categories / Noël Nguyen, Sophie Wauquier, and Betty Tuller -- A dynamical model of change in phonological representations : the case of lenition / Adamantios Gafos and Christo Kirov -- Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants : a comparison between Hungarian and French 241 / Willy Serniclaes and Christian Geng -- The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading / Nathalie Bedoin and Sonia Krifi -- Self-organization of syllable structure : a coupled oscillator model / Hosung Nam, Louis Goldstein, and Elliot Saltzman -- Internal and external influences on child language productions / Yvan Rose -- Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition : cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling / Sophie Kern and Barbara L. Davis
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