Approaches to Phonological Complexity / / ed. by Ioana Chitoran, Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico, François Pellegrino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bedoin, Nathalie,; Beltz, Brandon C.,; Carré, René,; Chitoran, Ioana,; Cohn, Abigail C.,; Coupé, Christophe,; Davis, Barbara L.,; Gafos, Adamantios,; Geng, Christian,; Goldstein, Louis,; Kello, Christopher T.,; Kern, Sophie,; Kirov, Christo,; Krifi, Sonia,; Maddieson, Ian,; Marsico, Egidio,; Nam, Hosung,; Nguyen, Noël,; Ohala, John J.,; Pellegrino, François,; Rose, Yvan,; Rossato, Solange,; Rousset, Isabelle,; Saltzman, Elliot,; Serniclaes, Willy,; Tuller, Betty,; Vallée, Nathalie,; Wauquier, Sophie,
• HerausgeberIn: Chitoran, Ioana,; Coupé, Christophe,; Marsico, Egidio,; Pellegrino, François,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; num.fig and tabl.

Complexity approaches, developed in physics and biology for almost two decades, show today a huge potential for investigating challenging issues in Humanities and Cognitive Sciences and obviously in the study of language(s). Theoretical approaches that integrate self-organization, emergence, non linearity, adaptive systems, information theory, etc., have already been developed to provide a unifying framework that sheds new light on the duality between linguistic diversity on the one hand and unique cognitive capacity of language processing on the other hand. Nevertheless, most of the linguistics literature written in this framework focuses on the syntactic level addressed through computational complexity or performance optimization, while other linguistic components have been somewhat neglected.In this context, 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