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The syllable in speech production /

The syllable in speech production / [edited by] Barbara L. Davis, Krisztina Zajdó. - New York : Erlbaum, c2008. - xxxvi, 444 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Tribute volume to Peter MacNeilage.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / by Björn Lindblom -- Preface / by Barbara L. Davis and Krisztina Zajdó -- Overview. 1. The Frame/Content theory / Peter F. MacNeilage -- I, Evolutionary Perspectives on Speech Development. 2. The Origins of Syllabification in Human Infancy and in Human Evolution / D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel -- 3. Simple Combinatorial Considerations Challenge Ruhlen's Mother Tongue Theory / Louis-Jean Boë, Pierre Bessiè̀re, Nadia Ladjili and Nicolas Audibert -- 4. The Frame/Content Theory and the Emergence of Consonants / Didier Demolin -- 5. Lipsmacking and Babbling : Syllables, Sociality, and Survival / John L. Locke -- II, Neurobiological Aspects of Speech Production. 6. Mirror Neurons and Evolution of Communication and Language / Leonardo Fogassi and Pier Francesco Ferrari -- 7. Syllables in Psycholinguistic Theory : Now You See Them, Now You Don't / Niels O. Schiller -- III, Perception /Action Relationships. 8. The Emergent Syllable / John J. Ohala -- 9. Co-occurrence Patterns in the Babbling of Children with a Cochlear Implant / Karen Schauwers, Paul J. Govaerts, and Steven Gillis -- 10. The Development of Consonant Vowel Syllables in Children Following Cochlear Implantation / Jan Allison Moore -- 11. Frames and Babbling in Hearing and Deaf Infants / Florien J. van Beinum -- IV, Acquisition of Speech. 12. Teething, Chewing, and the Babbled Syllable / Jeannette M. van der Stelt -- 13. An Acoustical Analysis of Consonant-Vowel Cooccurrences in Babbling : Coronal and Dorsal Contexts / Christine Matyear -- 14. Syllables, Segments, and Sequences : Phonological Patterns in the Words of Young Children Acquiring American English / Carol Stoel-Gammon and Beate Peter -- V, Modeling and Movement. 15. The Target Hypothesis, Dynamic Specification and Segmental Independence / Björn Lindblom -- 16. Jaw Cycles and Linguistic Syllables in Adult English / Melissa A. Redford and Paul van Donkelaar -- VI, Alternative Perspectives on the Syllable. 17. The Syllable in Sign Language : Considering the Other Natural Language Modality / Wendy Sandler -- 18. When the Babble Syllable Feeds the Foot in a Point / Christian Abry, Virginie Ducey, Anne Vilain and Claire Lalevée.

9780805854794 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 0805854797 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 9780805854800 (softcover)

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Grammar, Comparative and general--Syllable.
Speech acts (Linguistics)

P236 / .S934 2008

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