Introduction ; 1. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition ; 2. What Are Phonological Syllables Made Of? The Voice/Length Symmetry ; 3. Tone in Mituku: How a Floating Tone Nailed Down an Intermediate Level ; 4. Phonetic Representations in the Mental Lexicon ; 5. Phonological Primes: Cues and Acoustic Signatures ; 6. The Role of the Syllable in Speech Perception and Production ; 7. Fossil Markers of Language Development: Phonological 'Deafnesses' in Adult Speech Processing ; 8. Syllabic Constraints and Constraint Conflicts in Loanword Adaptations, Aphasic Speech, and Children's Errors ; 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? ; 10. Towards Imaging the Neural Correlates of Language Functions ; 11. Phonology in a Theory of Perception-for-Action-Control

A revealing cross-disciplinary perspective on language, speech, and cognition Chapters written by specialists in fields ranging from phonetics to neurology Of value and interest to linguists, cognitive scientists, and speech pathologists

Jacques Durand is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a member there of the CNRS team: Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, where he leads a phonology team. He is the author and editor of a number of books on phonology, including Generative and Non-Linear Phonology (1990), Frontiers of Phonology (1995, with F. Katamba) and Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with B. Laks).; Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris X and the Director there of the CNRS team Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus. He is the author of Langage et cognition (1996) and Phonologie accentuelle (1997). He has edited a number of books on phonology, including Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with J. Durand). His recent work has been in the area of language from a connectionist perspective.

A revealing cross-disciplinary perspective on language, speech, and cognition Chapters written by specialists in fields ranging from phonetics to neurology Of value and interest to linguists, cognitive scientists, and speech pathologists