Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is Professor of English and Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Her recent publications include Phonotactics and Morphonotactics of Polish and English (2016, with P. Zydorowicz et al.), Explaining Phonotactics using NAD (2014), and Natural Growth Theory of Acquisition (2022, with M. Wrembel). She is member of the Academia Europaea and the Agder Academy, corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and was President of Societas Linguistica Europaea. Patricia Donegan is Retired Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (1989-2016). Her notable publications include The Study of Natural Phonology (1979, with D. Stampe), Hypotheses of Natural Phonology (2009, with Stampe), On the Natural Phonology of Vowels (1985), and The Emergence of Phonological Representation (2015). Wolfgang U. Dressler is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr.hc.mult, member of six academies, and honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, Societas Linguistica Europaea, and Circle Linguistique de Prague. His 700 publications include Morphonology (1985), Explaining Natural Phonology (1984), Morphopragmatics (1994, with L. M. Barbaresi), On a Semiotic Theory of Preferences in Language (1990), Principles of Naturalness in Phonology and across Components (1996), and Natural Morphology (2017, with Kilani-Schoch).

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• Introduction Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Patricia J. Donegan, and Wolfgang U. Dressler; Part I. The Historical Foundation: Natural Phonology: 1. Historical roots of natural phonology Richard Wojcik; 2. The nature of natural processes Patricia J. Donegan; 3. Processes and rules Richard A. Rhodes, Geoffrey S. Nathan and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 4. Sound change, naturalness, and word shape probability Nikolaus Ritt; 5. Second language phonology Šárka Šimáčková and Patricia J. Donegan; Part II. Interpreting “Natural”: Natural Linguistics and Related Perspectives: 6. Semiotic, cognitive, and functional bases of natural linguistics Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dimitrios Meletis and Hans Basbøll; 7. Evolutionary perspectives on natural linguistics: concepts and methods Andreas Baumann and Nikolaus Ritt; 8. Self-organization in acquisition Wolfgang U. Dressler and Sarah Brogden Payne; 9. The relationship between frequency and phonological naturalness Ian Maddieson; Part III. Beyond Phonology: 10. Natural morphology Livio Gaeta and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 11. Natural syntax: a case study of negation William O'Grady; 12. Phonotactics and morphonotactics Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Paula Orzechowska, Paulina Zydorowicz, and Andreas Baumann; 13. Text and pragmatics in natural linguistics Elisa Mattiello and Wolfgang U. Dressler; Part IV. External Evidence: 14. Refining representations for natural phonology Geoffrey Schwartz; 15. First language acquisition Paulina Zydorowicz and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 16. From processes to cross-linguistic influence: different perspectives in phonological acquisition Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Magdalena Wrembel, and Anna Balas; 17. Extragrammatical and marginal morphology and poetic creativity Elke Ronneberger-Sibold and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 18. Bridging natural linguistics with neuro-cognition in people with speech and language impairments Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos, Paula Orzechowska and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 19. Quantitative methods in phonological argumentation Andreas Baumann and Kamil Kaźmierski; Part V. Views From Outside: The Position of Natural Linguistics Among Modern Linguistic Theories: 20. Natural linguistics and generative grammar Tobias Scheer; 21. Natural linguistics and optimality theory Fernando Sánchez-Miret; 22. Cognitive phonology Geoffrey S. Nathan; 23. Complex systems: complexity as a criterion on the continuum of naturalness Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., and Wolfgang U. Dressler; 24. Naturalness, preference and reality: views from fieldwork, computation and acoustics Dafydd Gibbon.