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… read more
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB. read more
The origin of phonological systems is examined from the paradigm of self-organization. We claim that phonological systems could have emerged as the product of self-organizing processes. Self-organization may have facilitated the evolution of structures within the sounds that humans were able to… read more