{"product_id":"the-syllable-in-speech-production-9780805854800","title":"The Syllable in Speech Production","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage's scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years. Approaches to the problems raised by attempting to understand these fundamental topics are illustrated in the broad diversity of paradigms represented in the volume. This diversity in itself is a tribute to the breadth of scholarly questions pursued by MacNeilage across his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters are arranged around five thematic areas. Two themes, \u003cem\u003eEvolutionary Perspectives on Speech Production\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAcquisition of Speech,\u003c\/em\u003e reflect the major thrust of Peter's scholarly career over the past 25 years. The other themes are reflective of the broad implications of MacNeilage's work for scholars in disparate scientific domains. One of the strengths of this volume is the unitary focus of contributions by scientists from diver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eB. Lindblom,\u003c\/em\u003e Foreword. \u003cem\u003eB.L. Davis, K. Zajdo,\u003c\/em\u003e Introduction. \u003cem\u003eP.F. MacNeilage, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Frame\/Content Theory. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 1. Evolutionary Perspectives.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eD. Kimbrough Oller, U. Griebel,\u003c\/em\u003e The Origins of Syllabification in Human Infancy and in Human Evolution.\u003cem\u003e L.-J. Boë, P. Bessière, N. Ladjili, N. Audibert,\u003c\/em\u003e Simple Combinatorial Considerations Challenge Ruhlen’s Mother Tongue Theory. \u003cem\u003eD. Demolin,\u003c\/em\u003e The Frame\/Content Theory and the Emergence of Consonants. \u003cem\u003eJ.L. Locke,\u003c\/em\u003e Lipsmacking and Babbling: Syllables, Sociality, and Survival. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 2. Neurobiological Aspects.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eL. Fogassi, P. Francesco Ferrari,\u003c\/em\u003e Mirror Neurons and Evolution of Communication and Language.\u003cem\u003e N.O. Schiller,\u003c\/em\u003e Syllables in Psycholinguistic Theory: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 3. Perception\/Action Relationships. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJ.J. Ohala,\u003c\/em\u003e The Emergent Syllable. \u003cem\u003eK. Schauwers, P.J. Govaerts, S. Gillis,\u003c\/em\u003e Co-occurrence Patterns in the Babbling of Children with a Cochlear Implant. \u003cem\u003eJ.A. Moore,\u003c\/em\u003e The Development of Consonant Vowel Syllables in Children Following Cochlear Implantation. \u003cem\u003eF.J. van Beinum,\u003c\/em\u003e Frames and Babbling in Hearing and Deaf Infants. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 4. Acquisition of Speech. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJ.M. van der Stelt,\u003c\/em\u003e Teething, Chewing, and the Babbled Syllable. \u003cem\u003eC. Matyear,\u003c\/em\u003e An Acoustical Analysis of Consonant-Vowel Co-occurrences in Babbling: Coronal and Dorsal Contexts. \u003cem\u003eC. Stoel-Gammon, B. Peter\u003c\/em\u003e, Syllables, Segments, and Sequences: Phonological Patterns in the Words of Young Children Acquiring American English. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 5. Modeling and Movement.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eB. Lindblom,\u003c\/em\u003e The Target Hypothesis, Dynamic Specification and Segmental Independence. \u003cem\u003eM.A. Redford, P. van Donkelaar, \u003c\/em\u003eJaw Cycles and Linguistic Syllables in Adult English. \u003cstrong\u003eSection 6. Alternative Perspectives on the Syllable.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eW. Sadler,\u003c\/em\u003e The Syllable in Sign Language: Considering the Other Natural Language Modality. \u003cem\u003eC. Abry, V. Ducey, A. Vilain, C. Lalevée,\u003c\/em\u003e When the Babble-Syllable Feeds the Foot. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405651550551,"sku":"9780805854800","price":94.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780805854800.jpg?v=1730493141","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-syllable-in-speech-production-9780805854800","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}