Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech

Special issue of Evolution of Communication 3:1 (1999)

Editors

Didier Demolin | Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jean-Marie Hombert | Université de Lyon 2.

Papers from a satellite meeting of the XIVth Congress of the Phonetic Sciences regarding the phonetics of the origin and evolution of speech. Topics include: the internal structure of words, the question of the growth of the vocal tract, and principles of self-organization as they relate to the origin of phonological systems and the emergence of sound patterns.

[Evolution of Communication, 3:1] 1999. 103 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/eoc.3.1

Table of Contents

Guest Editors' Preface Didier Demolin and Jean-Marie Hombert	1
Articles
Evolution of the form of spoken words Peter F. MacNeilage and Barbara L. Davis	3–20
The role of self-organisation in the emergence of phonological systems Didier Demolin and Alain Soquet	21–48
Neandertal man was not morphologically handicapped for speech Louis-Jean Boë, Shinji Maeda and Jean-Louis Heim	49–77
Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems Bart de Boer	79–103

Subjects

Linguistics

Phonology

Evolution of language

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General