Synopses & Reviews
This volume demonstrates that phonology is a subsystem of the mind/brain and explores the theoretical and practical (including medical) consequences of this insight. Written by American and European specialists at the cutting-edge of research in areas ranging from phonetics to neurology, the book addresses central questions relating to the cognitive status of phonological representation and phonetic implementation and the links between mental and physical representation of sound systems.
Table of Contents
Introduction,
Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks1. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition, Jacques Durand and Bernard Laks
2. What Are Phonological Syllables Made Of? The Voice/Length Symmetry, Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
3. Tone in Mituku: How a Floating Tone Nailed Down an Intermediate Level, John Goldsmith
4. Phonetic Representations in the Mental Lexicon, John Coleman
5. Phonological Primes: Cues and Acoustic Signatures, Michael Ingleby and Wiebke Brockhaus
6. The Role of the Syllable in Speech Perception and Production, Juan Segui and Ludovic Ferrand
7. Fossil Markers of Language Development: Phonological 'Deafnesses' in Adult Speech Processing, Emmanuel Dupoux and Sharon Peperkamp
8. Syllabic Constraints and Constraint Conflicts in Loanword Adaptations, Aphasic Speech, and Children's Errors, Carole Paradis and Renée Béland
9. What Can the Utterance 'Tan, Tan' of Broca's Patient Leborgne Tell Us about the Hypothesis of an Emergent 'Babble-Syllable' Downloaded by SMA?, Christian Abry, Muriel Stefanuto, Anne Vilain, and Rafael Laboissière
10. Towards Imaging the Neural Correlates of Language Functions, Jean-François Démonet, Gilles Thierry, and Jean-Luc Nespoulous
11. Phonology in a Theory of Perception-for-Action-Control, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry, Louis-Jean Boë, and Marie Cathiard