The syllable in speech production
By: [edited by] Barbara L. Davis, Krisztina Zajdó.
Contributors: Davis, Barbara L.; Zajdó, Krisztina.; MacNeilage, Peter F.
Publisher: Erlbaum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780805854794; 9780805854800
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syllable.; Speech acts (Linguistics)
Notes: Tribute volume to Peter MacNeilage.

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