Pellegrino / Marsico / Chitoran Approaches to Phonological Complexity

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-022395-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]ISSN

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Graduate Students interested in Speech Production and Perception, Language Acquisition and cognitive processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pellegrino, François

Marsico, Egidio

Chitoran, Ioana

Coupé, Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;6
2;Introduction ;8
3;Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives;26
3.1;Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness;28
3.2;Languages’ sound inventories: the devil in the details ;54
3.3;Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels ;66
4;Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity;90
4.1;Calculating phonological complexity ;92
4.2;Favoured syllabic patterns in the world’s languages and sensorimotor constraints ;118
4.3;Structural complexity of phonological systems ;148
4.4;Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons ;178
5;Part 3: Phonological representations in the light of complex adaptive systems;198
5.1;The dynamical approach to speech perception: From fine phonetic detail to abstract phonological categories ;200
5.2;A dynamical model of change in phonological representations: The case of lenition;226
5.3;Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants: A comparison between Hungarian and French ;248
5.4;The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading ;274
6;Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition;304
6.1;Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model ;306
6.2;Internal and external influences on child language productions ;336
6.3;Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling ;360
7;Index;384
8;List of Contributors;390

Über Autor(innen)

Ioana Chitoran, Dartmouth College and Yale University, USA.
Christophe Coupé, CNRS, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, France.
Egidio Marsico, CNRS, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, France.
François Pellegrino, CNRS, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, France.