Jacques Durand is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and a member there of the CNRS team: Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, where he leads a phonology team. He is the author and editor of a number of books on phonology, including Generative and Non-Linear Phonology (1990), Frontiers of Phonology (1995, with F. Katamba) and Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with B. Laks).; Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris X and the Director there of the CNRS team Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus. He is the author of Langage et cognition (1996) and Phonologie accentuelle (1997). He has edited a number of books on phonology, including Current Trends in Phonology (1996, with J. Durand). His recent work has been in the area of language from a connectionist perspective.

• Introduction ; 1. Phonology, Phonetics, and Cognition ; 2. What Are Phonological Syllables Made Of? The Voice/Length Symmetry ; 3. Tone in Mituku: How a Floating Tone Nailed Down an Intermediate Level ; 4. Phonetic Representations in the Mental Lexicon ; 5. Phonological Primes: Cues and Acoustic Signatures ; 6. The Role of the Syllable in Speech Perception and Production ; 7. Fossil Markers of Language Development: Phonological 'Deafnesses' in Adult Speech Processing ; 8. Syllabic Constraints and Constraint Conflicts in Loanword Adaptations, Aphasic Speech, and Children's Errors ; 9. What Can the Utterance 'Tan, Tan' of Broca's Patient Leborgne Tell Us about the Hypothesis of an Emergent 'Babble-Syllable' Downloaded by SMA? ; 10. Towards Imaging the Neural Correlates of Language Functions ; 11. Phonology in a Theory of Perception-for-Action-Control