Introduction to the special issue on the emergence of sound systems

Little, Hannah

Abstract

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [e-mail] How did human sound systems get to be the way they are? Collecting contributions implementing a wealth of methods to address this question, this special issue treats language and speech as being the result of a complex adaptive system. The work throughout provides evidence and theory at the levels of phylogeny, glossogeny, and ontogeny. In taking a multi-disciplinary approach that considers interactions within and between these levels of selection, the papers collectively provide a valuable, integrated contribution to existing work on the evolution of speech and sound systems.

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Conference Name: Journal of Language Evolution
• Online Publication Date: Jun 23, 2017
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 19, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 20, 2017
• Print ISSN: 2058-4571
• Electronic ISSN: 2058-458X
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx014
• Keywords: sound systems, speech, phonetics, phonology. evolution
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/900524
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx014