Approaches to phonological complexity / edited by Francois Pellegrino ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pellegrino, François, 1971-

Series:

Phonology and phonetics ; 16.

Phonology and phonetics ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Linguistics).

Phonetics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction / Pellegrino, François / Marsico, Egidio / Chitoran, Ioana / Coupé, Christophe

Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives

Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness / Chitoran, Ioana / Cohn, Abigail C.

Languages' sound inventories: the devil in the details / Ohala, John J.

Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels / Carré, René

Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity

Calculating phonological complexity / Maddieson, Ian

Favoured syllabic patterns in the world's languages and sensorimotor constraints / Vallée, Nathalie / Rossato, Solange / Rousset, Isabelle

Structural complexity of phonological systems / Coupé, Christophe / Marsico, Egidio / Pellegrino, François

Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons / Kello, Christopher T. / Beltz, Brandon C.

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 / Nguyen, Noël / Wauquier, Sophie / Tuller, Betty

A dynamical model of change in phonological representations: The case of lenition / Gafos, Adamantios / Kirov, Christo

Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants: A comparison between Hungarian and French / Serniclaes, Willy / Geng, Christian

The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading / Bedoin, Nathalie / Krifi, Sonia

Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition

Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model / Nam, Hosung / Goldstein, Louis / Saltzman, Elliot

Internal and external influences on child language productions / Rose, Yvan

Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling / Kern, Sophie / Davis, Barbara L.

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612719981

9781282719989

128271998X

9783110223958

3110223953

OCLC:

642690030