Table of contents
Introduction 1 François Pellegrino, Egidio Marsico, Ioana Chitoran and
Christophe Coupé
Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives
Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality,
and naturalness 21
Ioana Chitoran and Abigail C. Cohn
Languages’ sound inventories: the devil in the details 47 John J. Ohala
Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels 59 René Carré
Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity
Calculating phonological complexity 85 Ian Maddieson
Favoured syllabic patterns in the world’s languages and
sensorimotor constraints 111
Nathalie Vallée, Solange Rossato and Isabelle Rousset
Structural complexity of phonological systems 141 Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico and François Pellegrino
Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform
lexicons 171 Christopher T. Kello and Brandon C. Beltz
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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 193 Noël Nguyen, Sophie Wauquier and Betty Tuller
A dynamical model of change in phonological representations:
The case of lenition 219
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 267 Nathalie Bedoin and Sonia Krifi
Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition
Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model 299 Hosung Nam, Louis Goldstein and Elliot Saltzman
Internal and external influences on child language productions 329 Yvan Rose
Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic
omparisons of canonical babbling 353 Sophie Kern and Barbara L. Davis
Index 377
List of Contributors 383
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