Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Complexity and phonological primitives
5. Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness 19
6. Languages’ sound inventories: the devil in the details 47
7. Signal dynamics in the production and perception of vowels 59
8. Part 2: Typological approaches to measuring complexity
9. Calculating phonological complexity 83
10. Favoured syllabic patterns in the world’s languages and sensorimotor constraints 111
11. Structural complexity of phonological systems 141
12. Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons 171
13. Part 3: Phonological representations in the light of complex adaptive systems
14. The dynamical approach to speech perception: From fine phonetic detail to abstract phonological categories 191
15. A dynamical model of change in phonological representations: The case of lenition 219
16. Cross-linguistic trends in the perception of place of articulation in stop consonants: A comparison between Hungarian and French 241
17. The complexity of phonetic features' organisation in reading 267
18. Part 4: Complexity in the course of language acquisition
19. Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model 297
20. Internal and external influences on child language productions 329
21. Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling 353
22. Backmatter 377