Approaches to phonological complexity
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Approaches to phonological complexity
（Phonology and phonetics, 16）
Mouton de Gruyter, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 / 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
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Description
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.
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